The small towns from the andes were the most affected during the internal armed conflict that Peru had to face for 20 years (1980's to 2000). People lived in a continuous state of fear due to the presence of the terrorists groups and the absence of the government authorities. Poverty increased and social exclusion appeared in different ways. People without jobs, without basic health services, without education or homes. They were completely forgotten and still today one can see the consequences. People without knowledge of the official language, Spanish, and that maintained the ancestral culture instead of adopting the "oficial" one, suffered discrimination. This is how melancholy is still found in these andean towns. These people live isolated from the world outside, in a world that has been kept still during time. At night, silence reigns as in those times where there were conflicts. This is an shadowed environment where darkness keeps and remembers the past. |
