Separated the rich neighborhoods from the poor neighborhoods for 43 years, the "Wall of Shame" in Peru collapses

A wall 3 meters high and 4.5 kilometers long that separated the rich from the poor for 4 decades would no longer exist in Peru. The court decides that the neighborhoods of the same city in Lima will no longer be separated by "walls of shame" and coexistence between social classes will prevail. 

For 43 years, two neighborhoods of the same city in Lima were separated by a 4.5 kilometer wall, referred to as the "Wall of Shame" in Peru.

This towering fortress of stone and barbed wire separated the rich from the poor. It separates neighbors with substandard housing and no basic services from those with luxury homes and swimming pools in a privileged neighborhood with paved roads. This has been called the example of the biggest inequalities in South America.

But this shame for this city seems to have been undone after a decision of the Constitutional Court and a 4-year court battle of the poor residents.

The court decided that the wall should be torn down and that there should be no separation between the two neighborhoods of a city.

Construction of the wall began in the 1980s by residents of the La Molina neighborhood, following security concerns and a wave of land invasions and acts of terrorism during those years. But at the beginning of the last decade, the wall grew even longer, reaching 4.5 kilometers and separating poor residents from the other side of the hill in Lima's Villa María del Triunfo neighborhood, stretching up to three meters high.