As soon as I thought I was going to have a break from the wealth gap of any country, I realized I didn't. During this July vacation I visited my best friend who lives in Mexico City and just outside her window I realized the clear inequality between the rich and the poor. One year ago I would have probably thought how boring it is that a topic you already finished at school is hunting you during your vacations but this actually brought even more interest in this topic. When I began the documentary unit in the class I had another perspective of how important the wealth gap in Peru is which I hadn't had the opportunity to see before living in the country for already sixteen years. So, now I was in another country and even in a country which seems to be more developed than Peru has also a quite big wealth gap which was very noticeable even from my window. A couple of days later I visited a museum called Tlatelolco which part of it spoke about "El memorial del '68." This was a dark tourism place in the memory of some students who were unfairly killed by the police due to some protests.
This was something interesting to see because I was also able to compare some of the things I learned about Peru's wealth gap with Mexico's. I'm interested in researching a little bit about this but it was definitely an interesting museum.
Mexico's wealth gap started to shrink or rather began helping their low social class rise around the 70's and Peru began in the late 90's mostly in the 2000's during Toledo's government. |
AuthorStudent at Colegio Roosevelt in Lima, Peru. Archives
June 2015
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