The bad guys are much more exciting as everybody knows, the good nerd. Before me stands one whom at first sight not to be considered is to which category he belongs. 1.80 Well gross, on slender, with white stubble on his head and face in the not quite spent, sparkle from a pair of bright blue eyes. This modern casual plaid shirt hanging over his beige linen trousers, across the chest of Mitfünfzigers hanging reading glasses. In her right hand a thumbed paperback, "El Hombre," the novel of the American best-selling author on a fictitious black presidential candidate sheep. "Bufalo", so called my friend, could easily stand on a beach, waiting for a female victim who is not impressed by his adventures. If he does not. I meet Buffalo in the prison of San Juan de Lurigancho, the largest and most notorious men's prison in Peru. Bufalo, the sous chef a fait, that is a gang boss who rules over his prison wing with several hundred men. In other words, most men here in the hostel of Peru with over 10 000 inmates, Bufalo is a person of respect. This latest notice
we when we go with a photographer on the "Boulevard" - about 400 meters long corridor that separates the individual wings from each other. Here you find everything and buy all of: detergent, soap, spare parts for everything, drugs and people. On the ground, totally stoned guys who are even stoned to the dealer to and can only offer themselves to get on drugs, besides the drug dealers and men of all shades that offer home-made ceramics, and thus get the appearance, maintains that even in prison an "honest" life is possible. But is not 80% of the inhabitants of this prison is taking drugs, if they have not done it before they are potted, they do so no later than when they come out. The police is watching or even helping with the procurement of drugs. Why should they not, with 400 police officers against 10 000 prisoners, but all in vain labor of love. As you can feed the prisoners just as well with weapons and drugs. In a way, raises their only effect on each other: "The drugs make us tame, so that we can not break, because the weapons have to me."
Bufalo is no exception: "Of course I take drugs, or has it not from that." For 24 years Bufalo leads a life of jail and not prison. More time he has now spent indoors. Drug trafficking, robbery and fraud - all he has done and tried. Innocence, he does not try to fake the first place. Remorse over a botched life? And he has too much attitude and self-respect. "How do you keep the prison from here without going crazy?" I ask him. "You have to turn off all feelings, otherwise is not it. "says Bufalo. He would therefore not visit more of his family members, which bring only problems and worries. Without visiting family and he lived quietly. Despite all the cleverness, the sadness is profound in his voice.
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