Peru, A Robber’s Paradise
I’ve now lived in Peru for ten years, and have come to conclude this is a robber’s paradise; it is the freest country in the world to rob and not worry about a penalty. This is not a joke, it is reality, all you got to do is live here a year or two and you’ll be convinced. The laws are there but not enforced, for some odd reason—the government wants to look good but not do the work, the Government expects you to act or not rob, without enforcing the law and the laws are laughed at. No one pays them any attention, and the robbers are half the police force and the Mayors are on the take nine out of ten anyhow, and it just goes up the pyramid of authority, to the top.
The underbelly of the country is not built strong enough to withstand the assault of the robbers. It pays to rob in this country that is why everyone does it. The police come if you call them, an hour, or day or three days after you call them, depending if they themselves are not busy robbing. They take bribes on the streets as open as someone selling donuts, or ice-cream, and the government advocates they take bribes so they don’t have to pay them but $300-dollars a month. No robber expects to go to jail, and if by some off beat chance he does, he’ll not spend more than a day in jail, unless it is some congressman he robs from, and even that is unlikely. They robbed the President’s neighbour, and that was that, they never even looked into the case other than putting it on T.V., to let the public know how safe they were: meaning if the neighbour of the president isn’t safe, surely you are not.
It is not that the country is not doing well, or can’t afford to pay, but if you pay the police more, you can’t rob more at the higher level, you see, each level has there robbers, especially the Mayors office and the construction going on in Peru, all the house will fall when another earthquake comes, and everybody know it. If you’re asking where the concern for the public is, or National pride, or humanitarian folks are, they’ll tell you: that’s America’s job, we’re poor here, and we got to make ends meet. But when it comes to fiesta time, or drinking or special interests, they’ve got the time and money. It is like many places, they put there money were their interests are, they have it they just will not let go of it.
I’ve now lived in Peru for ten years, and have come to conclude this is a robber’s paradise; it is the freest country in the world to rob and not worry about a penalty. This is not a joke, it is reality, all you got to do is live here a year or two and you’ll be convinced. The laws are there but not enforced, for some odd reason—the government wants to look good but not do the work, the Government expects you to act or not rob, without enforcing the law and the laws are laughed at. No one pays them any attention, and the robbers are half the police force and the Mayors are on the take nine out of ten anyhow, and it just goes up the pyramid of authority, to the top.
The underbelly of the country is not built strong enough to withstand the assault of the robbers. It pays to rob in this country that is why everyone does it. The police come if you call them, an hour, or day or three days after you call them, depending if they themselves are not busy robbing. They take bribes on the streets as open as someone selling donuts, or ice-cream, and the government advocates they take bribes so they don’t have to pay them but $300-dollars a month. No robber expects to go to jail, and if by some off beat chance he does, he’ll not spend more than a day in jail, unless it is some congressman he robs from, and even that is unlikely. They robbed the President’s neighbour, and that was that, they never even looked into the case other than putting it on T.V., to let the public know how safe they were: meaning if the neighbour of the president isn’t safe, surely you are not.
It is not that the country is not doing well, or can’t afford to pay, but if you pay the police more, you can’t rob more at the higher level, you see, each level has there robbers, especially the Mayors office and the construction going on in Peru, all the house will fall when another earthquake comes, and everybody know it. If you’re asking where the concern for the public is, or National pride, or humanitarian folks are, they’ll tell you: that’s America’s job, we’re poor here, and we got to make ends meet. But when it comes to fiesta time, or drinking or special interests, they’ve got the time and money. It is like many places, they put there money were their interests are, they have it they just will not let go of it.
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