Chuschi’s new legacy
The district of Chuschi in Ayacucho doesn’t want to be remembered as the location from which the Shining Path began is blood-thirsty armed struggle in the 1980s. Today its population are trying to build a new legacy, a program of social development that allows them to work and benefit from their own natural resources. The program, financed by Oxfam, has shown them everything from how to distribute spaces within their homes to techniques for water use, irrigation and cultivation.
September 6, 2008 | Opinion
