Cameron Diaz issued an apology after offending Peru with her choice in handbags. On Friday, Diaz visited Machu Picchu carrying a handbag featuring a red star and the slogan, “Serve the people” in Chinese. The communist accessory was particularly offense in Peru because

The phrase, a slogan of the late Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong, touched a nerve among Peruvians still recovering from the Maoist Shining Path insurgency of the 1980s and early 1990s that left nearly 70,000 dead.

“It alludes ...