Slums

Any excuse to post a few shots of the slums. These ones at Miramar, not far from the US embassy, have views over the port. The fence to the right is a sports club clay shooting range. Just imagine the rattle of broken clays, wads and shot falling on your tin roof. The ground by the fence is a mass of human crap, and heavy rains will make the slope the shacks are built on crumble.

The ones at the bottom of the hill, run the risk of something bigger falling on the roof with the crumbling old chimney, but the playing area, complete with waste water and chickens pecking around might yet provide players for the next world cup team, in the same way that the back streets of pit villages provided Britain's footballing stars.