An American in Lima

The body of the teenage boy who drowned in a Lima sewer has finally been found, Lima police announced July 24.
After a 12-day search, the body of Ray Pomiano Villanueva was found in the Huaral district of Chancay, approximately 186 miles from where he fallen into an open manhole. Pomiano, who was trying to catch a bus when [...]

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This is one of the most awful events I’ve heard about recently. Lima has a huge problem with people stealing manhole covers, and the streets are becoming hazardous to pedestrians – now fatally, for one Lima teenager.
El Fotógrafo told me about the incident over breakfast. “What a way to go,” he said, shaking his head.
The [...]

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Looking through El Fotógrafo’s photos of the car crash in our neighborhood in April, I was struck by the irony of this image:

The driver of the combi had just crashed his busload of passengers into a small car driven by a mother with her preschool daughter. Medics had already arrived on the scene to cart the [...]

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LIMA, PERU (4/29/08): You don’t usually see car crashes in my quiet neighborhood of San Antonio, but that changed abruptly last Saturday afternoon, April 26, when a speeding combi bus collided with a small car carrying a mother and child. The combi plowed into a concrete pole at Avenida Arias Aragues and Calle General Silva, by [...]

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