Living an Unlikely Life
If you want to visit Maria, you must travel to Villa El Salvador, where the dusty, pot-holed roads all look the same, and the lines of low-lying roofs crowd the view in every direction. There on one particular block you’d notice a freshly painted, two-story building. Although a seemingly ordinary sign, “Santa Maria Enterprises,” hangs above the storefront, this business is anything but ordinary. In fact, its very existence is an unlikely story.
Forty years ago, this entire area of Peru was a barren spot in the desert. Built from scratch on the outskirts of Lima, the settlement of Villa El Salvador was established as a refuge for poor migrants in 1971. Now this urban area is bursting at the seams, with a population ...
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