My solitary Sunday was absorbed by a visit to La Paz’s San Pedro Prison.
No I wasn’t arrested for drugs or acts of public indecency, rather it was a straight forward tourist kinda thing.
There’s a guy, Fernando, English speaking, who’s been in the slammer here for 4 years for possessing 4 grams of cocaine, but he admits he’s actually been a drug dealer all his adult life; he got busted to now serve his present 8 year sentence. But he’s been organizing these tours of the goal, with the help of the corrupt prison governor – who he pays off with tourist dollars to shorten his sentence; his final 4 years have been reduced to 1.5 years and decreasing as his bizarre tours continue …
