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La Carpio and The Difficult Second Blog.

October 8th 2010
Howdy. As I mentioned last time, Carpio is the name of the town we work in. It is the rubbish dump for the city of San Jose and also has 35,000 people living there. It apparently started with several thousand Nicaraguan refugees from various conflicts across the border and has grown from there. It is a huge settlement of row after row of corrugated iron shacks that there is no way to get an ide ... read more
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