Word: penalolen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first glance the poblaciones or shantytowns of Penalolen appear to be a desolate, stagnant world far from the bustling, metropolitan center. Small houses, shacks and lean-tos of cardboard and corregated tin crowd together along unpaved streets that turn to impassable floods of mud in the winter. Delinquents hang out on the highway edging the shantytowns, passing a joint and listening to salsa on a battered radio, casting hostile glances at passers...
However, as one walks the labyrinth of streets within the shantytowns, another reality unfolds. Penalolen's shantytowns teem with their own choice life...
Marina lives in a shantytown in Penalolen. Two of her sons were part of the underground opposition movement. They suffered torture and internal exile. She considers herself fortunate however. Thousands of other individuals who were considered Leftists, Communists, or dissidents were desparecidos ("disappeared" or vanished without a trace...
...mornings, open air markets line the streets and balding football field of Penalolen's shantytowns. Vendors sell everything from fresh fruit to used clothes to posters of the Virgin Mary, Twisted Sister and Che Guevera...
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