Chorrillos, Tuesday 4 August. It's almost 3 am and the residents of Chorrillos are grouped around the last tree is left.
All morning a fight to protect more than 150 trees, some more than 30 years old, planted by the villagers themselves and were being felled by saws fifty workers of the Municipality of Lima under the almost 200 police protection.
is the last tree and surrounding neighbors preventing chainsaws bring him down. Police threat to their shields.
Most grew up in the park, next to those trees. The police have a clear mandate: "disappear.
"progress" comes with shock and milestones. With helmets and shields.
neighbors are removed from the last tree of Chorrillos.
Castañeda won: the police managed to free the tree and prepare the local mountains.
Goodbye, the last tree. About you will be the final season of the Metropolitan. Oxygen will be replaced by smog and phone calls of other birds and the noise of people approaching vehicles.
(PHOTOS COURTESY OF OMAR OLIVARES)
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