"The irony is that those who inhabit poor regions live on the very ground that is fueling the Peruvian bonanza. Mining is the country?s most lucrative industry, and mining firms from Canada, Australia and the United States have been rushing to dig out precious metals."
"Look around more, and you see two Perus: effervescent Lima, 9 and a half million strong, and the 20 million more who live outside it. While the poverty rate in Lima fell to 15.7 percent in 2011 from 44.8 percent in 2004, the rural Andes and Amazon languish in nearly feudal conditions. According to the World Bank, a citizen of Lima earns 21 times more than a resident of the outback, where the rural poverty rate is a staggering 54 percent. To make matters worse, it is a starkly racial problem: the poor are the dark-skinned indigenous, the rich, getting richer, are mostly white."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/o...ft-behind-by-the-boom.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
"Look around more, and you see two Perus: effervescent Lima, 9 and a half million strong, and the 20 million more who live outside it. While the poverty rate in Lima fell to 15.7 percent in 2011 from 44.8 percent in 2004, the rural Andes and Amazon languish in nearly feudal conditions. According to the World Bank, a citizen of Lima earns 21 times more than a resident of the outback, where the rural poverty rate is a staggering 54 percent. To make matters worse, it is a starkly racial problem: the poor are the dark-skinned indigenous, the rich, getting richer, are mostly white."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/o...ft-behind-by-the-boom.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
