Trapped
Carla Bolívar:
a 20-year-old mother of two, serving a sentence for drug smuggling in the Ayacucho Prison.
Poverty and acute family emergencies are driving young people in Peru to smuggle cocaine out of the VRAEM Valley. They are the start of a long chain that makes people rich. But they are the weakest link.
We visited Carla Bolívar, 20, in Ayacucho prison:
Sandra Weiss and Charlotte Eichhorn have been living and researching in Latin America for many years. In their reportages, they allow themselves to be immersed in completely different worlds. They get into the thick of it - and accompany their protagonists, sometimes for decades. This results in long-term, multidimensional observations.
Their reportages bear witness to the modernisation and globalisation of South America from the perspective of the people affected. The stories describe the resulting upheavals and problems as well as successful resistance and original alternatives. They are therefore an impressive and thought-provoking appeal to our Western civilisation
