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Article: With Street Vendors Gone, Peru Rediscovers Lima
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- The Washington Post
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- August 26, 1996
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LIMA, Peru -- Resurrecting a city demands a battle plan, or
several for that matter, and this morning Elsie Guerrero is
spreading hers out on the hood of a faded blue Ford. The well-worn
map marks the trouble spots, and since this is Lima, that leaves
little room for anything else.
Like a general contemplating troop movements, the city
administrator assesses the battlefield. The news from this front has
not been good. Entire streets, marked blue and red on the map, have
been lost to invading vendors. No one remembers when they overran
the post office. Churches never had a prayer. The chaos has been
knocking at the palace gates, where the tenant is President Alberto
Fujimori.
The ...