A Colombian street kid getting high by sniffing the shoe glue in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia.
A Colombian street kid getting high by sniffing the shoe glue in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 5 April 2004. The glue is the cheapest trip available in every Southamerican slum. El Calvario is a slum in the pure centre of Cali. Right here, on the dirty, stinky street lies the social bottom of the city. Poor dwellers recollect the garbage, children get high by sniffing the shoe glue and all together watch out for not getting shot dead by so called El Sheriff, the former policeman but now the illegal authority “Mano negra”, who fight the criminality in the ghetto. Theft, drug abuse, unemployment never let the slum people jump off the misery and stop being the second category citizen in the rigid catholic society of Colombia. Although missionary organizations fight (in the name of Jesus Crist) to help them, there seems to be no hope for the future.
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Location: Cali, Colombia
Photo credit: © Jan Sochor / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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