Una historia personal de Chimbote y las locuras de la migración By Alex Julca Why Chimbote and not Lima? Chimbote is located on the Peruvian Northern Coast about 300 miles from Lima. A boom in the fishing industry oriented to US and European markets -- for animals' diet in the meat production industry -- since the 1950s, brought on the expansion of Chimbote as a new city and made the construction of a hospital there possible. At the time when the preference was Lima, my father's possibilities for getting a vacancy as an ambulance driver in Chimbote were higher. His incomplete primary school studies were a big barrier for finding vacancies in Lima, where bureaucratic documentation was more strictly followed. He obtained a job in Chimbote with even less wage than in Cerro de Pasco but better climate, hope for finishing his primary school or higher education for his children; new experiences (e.g. knowledge of new people, places, food such as fresh and abundant fish; ...
Poéticas indígenas y originarias.