Fish murals fighting gang warfare

The Plaza del Matrix is a tidy little paved square with benches in front of the cathedral church in wedding cake pink and white. The square is flanked by colonial buildings with freshly painted yellow plaster walls, colonnades and upper balconies. Behind is a cluster of concrete cylinders 11 stories high, and beyond that, stacked containers and loading cranes on the docks. Across the Plaza is a mural showing a brown man and a pink man, with arms round each other’s shoulders. They could be holding each other up, or pulling each other down. Welcome to Callao, Lima’s historic port.
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