For the Velasco brothers -- especially Mansueto and Roel -- it was through their fists.
But in 1998 Manuel Velasco, a local paediatrician, noticed a pattern among his patients.
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But first impressions are deceptive -- Roel Velasco is an implacable slugger once the gloves go on.
In Valparaiso, Neruda (along with artists Marie Martner and Francisco Velasco) bought and converted a mansion overlooking the bay.
In 1968, Peruvian President Fernando Belaunde Terry was overthrown in a coup by a National Revolutionary Junta headed by Velasco Alvarado.
"Within three days of announcing the label, we had over 1, 000 artists contacting us, wanting to be on it, " says Mr Velasco.
Over the past year and a half, the limelight has mostly been on the youngest Velasco, Mansueto, 24, better known as Onyok.
Velasco hugely expanded the state's economic role, and formed thousands of co-operatives.
He rightly places him within a tradition of radical nationalist military leaders in Latin America, such as Juan Velasco, who ruled Peru in 1968-73, and Panama's Omar Torrijos.
Roel was eight when he, his siblings and his pals began engaging in bouts of duck, feint and jab at the Velasco home in Bago, in the province of Negros Occidental.
ICD's head, Wilma Velasco, show that of 922 Bolivian children registered as having crossed the frontier into Argentina in the first quarter of this year, only 540 had the appropriate authority.
Velasco is no stranger to strong, militaristic soundtracks, either.
"The United States has substantial and growing concern about the threats to economic and national security posed by cyberintrusions, including the theft of commercial information, " department spokesman Peter Velasco said in a statement.
Once politics had replaced baseball as his primary passion, his heroes would be nationalist military rulers such as Peru's General Juan Velasco and Panama's Omar Torrijos, rather than Mr Castro or Che Guevara.
Velasco wrote that the case before him in Spain, initially submitted by a prisoners rights group, is in a "premature phase" and that the country "best positioned" to investigate the alleged crimes could be the United States.
The National Court judge, Eloy Velasco, issued an order dated Monday and made public on Tuesday, directing Spanish officials to seek that information from the United States, before the judge determines whether to proceed or not with a potential case in Spain against the six former Bush officials.
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