In many of Latin America big towns and most of border towns, most middle-class houses are tiny versions of fortresses.

It is a sign of police incompetence, government collapse and the fact that those places are ruled by gangsters.

"Newly walled towns are a sign of shrivelling state authority" was my thought when I saw the walled off Capitol.

It is sad when the government needs walls to protect itself from its own people, a sign of weakness. To add to the irony the Capitol used to be, quite literally, the "people's house."

Awesome

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