Source: WTL photo taken on site in the outskirts of Lima.
Comments: Early morning in one of Lima's extremely poor neighborhoods. Due to the extremely pejorative connotation of the Spanish terms for "slums", a Catholic bishop of Lima changed the teminology referring to places like this one as "pueblos jóvenes" (young towns). In fact, the poor immigrants to Peru's cities first move into these poor shacks in settlements farther and farther out from the center of the city. They are "young towns" because they are constantly new. Over time, each of the outer poor housing rings get running water and electricity and they gradually improve. This photo deliberately shows the crowding on the hillside; the extreme harshness of the landscape, the preponderance of slightly better looking buildings in the foreground, and the two structures at the top of the hill.
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