Peru: Prostitution Invades Lima Streets

According to Larazon.com.pe the municipality of Lima will remove some of the congestion, vendors and prostitutes, in the streets of Lima by July. Questions are mounting as more vendor and prostitutes have taken over the streets of Lima says Alberto Valenzuela, head of the municipality. Gabriel Prado, the safety manager of the municipality says that more than 7,000 street vendors have to raise a capital to leave the street and integrate into the community since their street permits are temporary. Removal of street vendors will start with ave. Abancay and all of the Mercado Central. Many of the vendors are prostitutes who bring crime and drug trafficking, causing many residents to avoid leaving home. Valenzuela says that security had decreased at night, which increases vendors in the historic center and Cercado zone. However officials are not seeing a increase in crimes but a risk in ‘strange incompetence.’Read Article