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...Pile), a Lima slum of 5,000 people beside a garbage dump. With 14 relatives, they huddle in a dirt-floored hut-its walls made of flattened tin cans, scrap wood and cardboard cartons. German, 30, earns 25 soles (93?) a day in a pottery plant; the others ragpick or beg for scraps at the back doors of restaurants. Once each day Aurelia brews a thin stew from the choicest tidbits. Says Aurelia, "We are not starving here." Every dictator who ever looted a Latin American treasury has left behind his small quota of conspicuous public housing works, which barely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Slums in the Sun | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

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