On the disparity and security that I want to pay attention to in Peru, deeply involved in Japan

This summer, the NHK interview teamRobbery damage in Lima, Peru's capitalI am encountering it. In Peru there were people who live and live in coarse wooden houses and house walls that do not reach electricity and water supply, and compared with Colombia and Ecuador, it was an impression that the level of life obviously dropped. Nothing has happened at the moment, but I take care of security and act actively. Even Peru people are alarmed so it can not be helped. "Landscape of Nazca"Machu PicchuThere are many Japanese tourists visiting Japan, Peruvians of Nikkei worked in Japan, they planned to participate in the next TPP and also deeply involved in Japan Peru, how much do you know about Peru Is it there?

Hello, I reached Puno near the border with BoliviaTakuya Sudo @ circle around the world bicycle @ Charridermanis. It is a stay that has come close to 80 days, but the disparity and development of Peru was one of the themes during the trip. Because I am a bicycle, I am watching a lot of small towns. I tried to summarize the actual situation of Peru that I felt in such a trip this time.

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◆ Everyday in Peru
Among the domestic population of about 29 million people, Lima metropolitan area where about 9 million people live is different, development of supermarkets and fast food has progressed leading the Peruvian economy. However, in the capital city Lima, regional cities and rural towns, the state of development will be different.

A huge supermarket like the Japanese ion in the capital Lima


In the supermarket, everything seemed to come.


In Peru's daily life, the market is indispensable.


In CuscoIndianaA woman lined up vegetables on the street.


In the vicinity of the market where people gather, with such a message board, sales and recruitment of second-hand goods and recruitment are carried out.


McDonald 's in the world also develops mainly in Lima.


There is Starba in Peru


"Dragon Ball Z God and GodMovie theaters will be screened. It was a foreword in Lima, but I saw it because it was published in Puno. I felt the era in the breathtaking scenes that breathed using CG.


In the game center, NAMCO and SEGA gaming machines ago ago


Lima's "HIRAOKA" is a mass-market electronics retail store like Japan's Bic camera or Yodobashi camera. As the name suggests, people in Nikkei are active in Peru.


Peru's representative pharmacy chain "Inka Farma"


"PETRO PERU"Gas stations to be seen throughout Peru


◆ Peru who felt poverty
However, it was a fact that there were people who could not reach development, Peru was running all the way with Selva (Amazon), Sierra (Andean), Costa (Pacific Coast), but in every place the poor area There was a coarse house stand out. There are differences in comparison with Colombia and Ecuador of the same South America.The situation in Colombia also in articlesEven though reviewing the pictures, Peru's poverty stands out. It was pretty intense to reuse PET bottles falling on the street and sell them with handmade juice. There is a shop that regular juice is in the home refrigerator, so I can not check what is there, so I will be in trouble. Begging also became aggressive, I was puzzled that this would cause action even during meals. The local people say "Per month's salary of a regular Peru is about 250 US dollars (about 24,000 yen)".

The central area of ​​Lima, the capital city where many tourists visit ... ...


Cusco's central capital, the capital of the Inca Empire, is not the true Peruvian figure.


It is Peruvian's daily lives that the center part is scratchy and vibrant. This is Anne's Huanuco.


Down town of Juliaca in southern Peru


Cheap accommodation in a small town in Selva (Amazon)


Wealthy people live in fine houses


This is also a mansion house


However, the general Peru's building looks like this. There are many buildings halfway off, given up on the second floor.


Tired tin roof


A wooden house stands out in Selva (Amazon)


A roof


People lived in a simple house


A scene I saw in Africa


You can not rely on wooden screens alone


Residential districts seen in Sierra (Andean) near Huanuco


The Andean area gets cold, so the building is solid.


This is a collective house in Lima in the capital city


Lima suburbs


Even in Costa (Pacific coast), there was a cluttered place as well as other areas.


Slums that I saw in the desert several times


A small settlement visited by the coast


Since the laundry is dry, there seem to be some people living in such a place.


Again the Village House in Sierra (Andean) 4000 m


The suburb of Cusco was still a neat feeling.


Next door seen from Cusco's inn


There were many clay wall houses from Cusco to Puno


In Japan, too, "dislocated house" which lends a room with no windows separated by about 3 tatami from the increase of the young poor has been discussed, but also in Peru, South America. In the room set up in the space under the stairs, the figure of the family holding the children walking in the stairs. A room like the one we took in was not a place where ordinary people live.

There was a terrible room in a cheap hotel in the town of Singapore (Amazon) called Tingo Maria.


Housing space is made on the ceiling on the top floor


A small room that is difficult to stand up


Also at the top of the stairs.


Machu Picchu tourismIn Cusco that came back from, a simultaneous strike was held and the protesters were marching in the center square. As a result of that influence, supermarkets and shops also unload the shutters, and the cusco town where the usual crowds are undoubted always quietly. As I walked down the town from the afternoon, it seemed that something was burning in the plaza, after cleaning up the town was cleaned by the cleaners of the town, I was stunned by the absence of morals of the demonstrators.

Crowds of protesters using panels even in the afternoon.


I was shocked and I could not say anything.


What I feel most about the Peruvian moral is transportation manners, and I was troubled by the fact that they stopped in the middle of the road and they were attracting customers. Of course, the continuation of horn that echoes in the ear without advancing the car behind. Peru 's car always stops at your favorite without departing from the blinker and departs, so always be careful on the road. I actually witnessed the traffic accident about 2 times and the fallen people were being carried away.

Even in Japan, there was a case that a man of Peruvian nationality abandoned the washing machine in the vacant land, and the presiding judge said, "In Peru we throw away broken appliances in the vacant lot, it is generally accepted that people want it to repair it Judge and cancel the order to withdraw from abroad.

Domestic deportation "lacks validity" Peru in illegal dumping of washing machine Nationality man in Tokyo ordered the Tokyo district court to cancel the disposal - MSN Sankei News

A man of Nikkei Peru (31) of Japanese affiliated nationality Peru (31) asked the government to cancel the disposal as it was illegitimate to abandon a broken washing machine and the like in a vacant lot in the neighborhood and ordered to leave the country because it received a fine penalty The court judgment on the lawsuit was Tokyo District Court on 28th. The presiding judge of Makoto Itsuka admits the request as "disposal is not so valid."

Presiding Judge President Junzo TSOSUKA said, "In Peru we abandon the broken home appliances in the vacant lot, it is generally accepted that people who want it will repair and use it," and the illegal dumping of men said, "There was a deterministic crime It is hard to say. " The compulsory withdrawal orders were judged to "deviate from the range of discretionary power."

◆ Reasons to worry about security
Due to these circumstances Peru's security saw danger. It is not as good as Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras in Central America where there were guards with guns at pharmacies and fast food stores, yet the doors and windows of strictly protected private houses and shops are enough to fuel anxiety . I avoided the camp during traveling and stayed as cheap as I could.

Doors and windows of ordinary private houses are covered with iron grids


In addition to shutters, shops have grilled iron


A double padlock on the door


Entrance to a private house protected by intercom


Public phones are also surrounded so as not to be stolen. There were also places where even handsets were connected by chains.


Are electric meters also destroyed


Graffiti worsens the neighborhood atmosphere


Even on farms, "a suspicious person shoots with a gun" a noisy warning


Another thing scared by Peru is that counterfeit notes are circulating, which was always checked in accounting. I bought a 50 sol soldier (about 1850 yen) that a boy bought for money exchange only once, because he was a counterfeit bidder, witnessed it at the shop and he made it. Although it was not that many such circles were circulated, I continued traveling with confidence that it would be okay, but a hole was opened by a punch so as not to be used in the supermarket of Puno which will be the last big city Fake counterfeiters were decorated, and I was made aware of the reality of Peru.

◆ Steady economy and infrastructure development
It is Peru which is noticeable in such poverty, but the economic outlook seems to be bright. Ministry of Foreign Affairs'Peru basic data"The economic outline is written as follows.

The macro economy is performing well, and since 2001 the expansion of domestic demand and soaring international price of mineral resources realized high growth and low inflation. It is one of the best in Central and South America (8.8% in 10 years, 6.9% in 11 years, 6.3% in 12 years) and recorded the growth rate. However, there are many people who think that the benefits of economic growth are not mainly attributed to the poor in mountainous areas and tropical rainforest areas (the poverty rate is decreasing (44.5%: 2006 → 27.8%: 11 years ( Peruvian statistical information agency)), but the regional disparity is large), leading to the establishment of the Umara regime with "social inclusion" for such person as a major policy issue. The administration maintains solid macroeconomic policy and fiscal discipline, centering on Castilla Economy and Finance Minister, Bank of China Governor Berarde (continued from previous administration), earnestly striving to raise tax revenue, promote export, attract private investment, etc. While working on it, it is necessary to raise the minimum wage, to provide pension benefits from the national treasury to the elderly, to develop nurseries to support working women, to improve health care care for socially vulnerable people, excellent students who do not have financial means for enrollment We are pushing forward social policy such as scholarship payment to. Also, for sustainable development, we emphasize human resource development through transfer of knowledge and technology.

The poverty rate seems to be decreasing. If neighboring Ecuador and Bolivia 's leftist regime is gaining the support of the poor from socialist policies, Peru who is going to join the TPP and is trying to develop while promoting free trade was interesting. This good economy can catch a glimpse of construction in various places.

Especially road construction is spectacular, the main line of the Pacific side, which is the center of the economy, is fully paved. The Amazon area is only a few paved from Tarapoto to Huanuco. The Andean region, which will become the center of Peru, tooTraveling by a friend's charriderIt seems that construction is in order to connect cities and cities of Jaen, Cajamarca, Huaras, Huancayo, Ayacucho, and it will certainly be a promising way to run in the near future. The completed road was also impressed with repairing cracked parts. Not only the main road but also the roads of the city road are paving. In the capital city Lima, an elevated railroad connecting the city center was made, and in small places where there were sharp steps, it seemed that there was a new staircase and they were doing something in all places.

Bulldozers in the Selva (Amazon) area collapsing slopes to create roads


Because it was kept waiting for 2 ~ 3 hours, "Ha ha ha ha" and a rushing bicycle


Totally closed for traffic in Peru who has suffered several stalls due to road construction


However, it may be useless if it is to make such a road. Compared to Ecuador, Peru holds down the slope and makes a road, so I could climb as hard as reasonable pass at over 4000 m.


Traces like scraping the mountain and passing through the road


On the outskirts of Juliaca under construction for multiple lanes


In the suburbs of Lima the road is on one side four lanes


Huanuco Town is under maintenance


Even in a small town exceeding 4000 m, I was surprised that there is a brand new road which is not balanced with the surrounding scenery


◆ Reasons for Poverty
I do not think deeply that "poor things are poor" while in Japan, but poor countries have reasonable reasons.

In Peru, for example, we stayed at a cheap hotel where hot water rarely comes out, but the identification of the two faucets is usually impossible, so we tried to switch out if we left water and cold. On the contrary, there is red and blue, and if you twist the red, there is even an inn where the water comes out. This is a problem to be solved with a single sticker if stuck, but they will not do it. Or, I would like to have a toilet seat on the toilet bowl.

There are lots of cheap accommodations and I am saved ... ....


In Peru it was hard to break down the money. If each store prepares in advance, it will be saved the trouble of running around. Under these circumstances, 100 sol (about 3700 yen) of high-value banknotes coming out of ATM were destroyed systematically at supermarkets, and always carry small bills. When I sold a 100 sor currency bill at a cheap hotel in 25 Sol, I was told "There is no fishing", I felt like I understood it, somehow to break down and hand over 50 sol again. Still, with the same answer as "There is no fishing", "What, what have you been doing?" Sighs will come out. 50 sols were broken down by people in the hotel.

Currency Sol in Peru


Stray dogs who stroll around the streets are not unsafe and want not to approach, but they enter the dining hall and they feed for bait. Even though they are adding in the town. I also thought that this is a problem that should be managed even by disposal or castration. Peruvian people have something to do before developed countries, including Japan, can help them.

The admission fee for Machu Picchu was twice as much as the local people for foreigner charges. Although foreigners' fees for sightseeing spots in developing countries can not be helped, recently it began to understand, but even with a simple brochure still attached, it is not "obvious to take a high price because it is a foreigner" Thank you for your cooperation. "I feel that attitude such as can not be done. I do not feel like doing such things as the reason why developing countries do not develop.

Foreigner charge


◆ Expectation in the future
However, there are those who are doing what to do. A number was waving on the table of the cafeteria where I entered, and it was grinning. By doing so, you will be judging the busy store. It is nothing to give or teach, and it will become nothing if the people living there do not change.

A perfect store that put all the goods in order properly and price tags.


Although it is 10 sol (about 370 yen), the cheap hotel which was kept very beautifully.


Because it is so rich in this kind of fruit that can be picked up in Peru.


A scene of a harvest that is too beautiful.


It is also industrialized and duct tape is also made in Peru


The key of the door was also made of Peru. It is hard to compete with inexpensive Chinese products, but still producing in your country is essential for development.


I have been thinking about these things while traveling in Peru. Peruvian people are cheerful even if there is poverty, and in the second message I greeted it is "Amigo" so I do not dislike it. There are many children tomorrow, so I'd like to expect more in the future.

(Sentence / photo: Takuya S. Narou Charriderman
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