Vol.63/No.13 April 5, 1999
Economic crisis deepens in Peru
Police evicted some 2,500 street vendors - not without a
fight - on February 18 in Lima, Peru. For several hours the
vendors, trying to hold their ground, battled about 300
national guards and 300 municipal police. Owners of small
factories and clothing stores near a busy shopping where
vendors have been for about 15 years had complained of unfair
competition.
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