![]() ![]() And there is not a single guard in sight. Walls are emblazoned with the Coca-Cola logo. Listless cats and mangy dogs sleep beneath tables. Small girls are laughing and playing hopscotch. Women carry sacks of food or roast meat on gas stoves. Inside, the sights that greet you belong to a typical Bolivian street scene. It’s only once through the heavy iron gates that the craziness begins. At the prison entrance, idle policemen in green uniforms lean against the 15-metre-high yellow wall. Looking around the leafy plaza you see colourfully dressed indigenous women in bowler hats standing by carts, squeezing orange juice, and old men seated on benches, feeding pigeons. From the outside, everything seems normal enough. In the centre of La Paz, it occupies an entire city block and fronts onto a picturesque plaza. Welcome to San Pedro – the strangest prison on the planet. If you enjoy reading the AR online, why not consider subscribing to the print edition? This is one of the most read articles on the AR website. ![]()
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