ABSTRACT

Managua, Nicaragua, November 2013. Conversation with Víctor Arias, former waste picker at La Chureca, the city’s dump:

Víctor: I am from Chinandega. She [pointing towards his wife, María] is from Villa del Carmen. We met in Chinandega [. . .] and we started making a family. Look, at that time I used to work on the sugarcane fields, harvesting sugarcane for many years.