Composite picture of children walking alongside the 10-foot tall
Children walk alongside the 10-foot tall "wall of shame" in Lima, Peru.
  • A 10-foot tall "wall of shame" separates some of Lima's wealthiest neighborhoods from its most impoverished.
  • Now, a nearly three-mile section of the wall is coming down at the end of a four-year court battle.
  • "This is an inadmissible wall in a democracy," a court magistrate told Le Monde in March.

In Peru's capital city of Lima, a nearly ten-foot tall "wall of shame" has separated the wealthy from the impoverished for four decades.

This year, one segment of this barb-wired wall is being demolished after a long court battle.