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  • A Colombian man called El Sheriff having a short break right before his usual control round in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 23 April 2004. 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.

  • A Colombian garbage recollector pulling his fully loaded cart on the street in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 5 April 2004. 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.

  • A young Colombian mother with her babygirl selling rummage and used clothes from garbage dumps in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 3 April 2004. 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.

  • Colombian garbage recollectors, waiting on the street of the Calvario slum, trying to sell found metal items, Cali, Colombia, 5 April 2004. 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.

  • 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.

  • Colombian drug addicts lying on the street in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 20 April 2004. Their motion ability has already been reduced, some of them keep in unstoppable tremor due to the brain damage caused by sniffing glue. 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.

  • A Colombian man looking from behind the bars of a heavily protected shop in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 20 April 2004. 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.

  • A young Colombian policeman guarding the entrance to the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 4 April 2004. 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.

  • A Colombian slum dweller standing in front of a rented house in the ghetto of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 5 April 2004. 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.

  • A Colombian street kid recollecting garbage in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 4 April 2004. 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.

  • There are various missionary organizations helping in El Calvario. This aid is usually accompanied (or conditioned) by religious education. 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.

  • A young Colombian girl getting high by sniffing the shoe glue in front of the Police patrol in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 23 April 2004. The police can not intervene because the glue is not legally considered as a drug. 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.

  • A dirty Colombian drug addict lying on the street in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 5 April 2004. 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.

  • A Colombian man called El Sheriff loading his gun before entering the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 23 April 2004. 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.

  • A drunk Colombian garbage recollector sleeping on the street in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 23 April 2004. 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.

  • A Colombian slum dweller fastening his belt on the street of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 5 April 2004. 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.

  • People passing along the main street in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 5 April 2004. 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.

  • A Colombian homeless man standing on the street in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 5 April 2004. 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.

  • A Colombian man looking out of the window in the roller shutter in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 5 April 2004. 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.

  • A Colombian garbage recollector checking his cart on the street in the slum of Calvario, Cali, Colombia, 20 April 2004. 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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