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A bird's eye view of the wall in Peru that separates some of Lima’s wealthiest districts from some of its poorest. On the right side of the wall we see barren land and on the left houses.
Josh Lee/TNH

  • The first parts of the so-called “Wall of Shame”, which separates some of Lima’s wealthiest districts from some of its poorest, were constructed by a Jesuit school in the 1980s to seal itself off from a swelling population of rural migrants.

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  • Regions Peru

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