Walls of sand

Terrorism in Peru forced people from the countryside, like Griselda, out from their lands to move to Lima capital. Fear congregated masses of farmers in the already-existing urban poor areas. They settled illegally in the surroundings of the southern and northern cones of Lima la hermosa. They settled where our story takes part: las invasiones.
Las invasiones, (the [...]

Griselda..

Griselda welcomed Mario and the rest of the group into a meeting room of the size of a large classroom that would serve a class of thirty. That was the front part of her house where she holds the meetings of her organization every Saturday at 3:00 pm. The more than modest house is a [...]

Participatory Budgeting…a process

Participatory Budgeting is the process through which the civic society and the government get together to decide the investment budget of a municipality.  Mario, Nicolas, Shaun, and I are filming a documentary about the practice of Participatory Budgeting in the poorest areas of Lima, Peru. For the first time in Peruvian history, the most marginalized [...]