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Peruvians fret over erotic theme park

• In the past decade, Peru has been trying to distribute some of its wealth out of Lima and into the provinces. Those villages find some crazy ways to spend their money.
• "People in Huayre are bemused by the uproar. National rulers, they figure, have been squandering their riches for centuries, so what's the big deal if Mayor Wenceslao Alderete hoped to attract tourists by gracing the village's central plaza with outsized images of genitalia and of the maca root, a tuber traditionally consumed as an aphrodisiac? The federal government had hoped for more attention to priorities in communities like Huayre, which still lacks paved streets or a sewage system!"
• Whose priorities? Who needs a paved street when you have an erotic theme park? Hell, they probably don't have any cars to drive on those streets anyway.