Cusco (travels) in DeviantArt
always hovered in conversations with friends and family that Cuzco increasingly became a city of gringos, as long as we went through the parade, cultural and tourist center of town, looked full of different national visitors, Asians, Americans and Europeans. Unfortunately, the current situation has made this sentence is impossible, which is seriously detrimental to Peru, but especially to the imperial city.
This time, despite of happiness that I always get back to my Cuzco, I felt a terrible sadness when I went through the main square for a wednesday night, a day that should never miss the people sitting in the stands at the foot of the cathedral, people chatting happily in the pews and hanging around the mythical city gates in search of a bar, a lunch or dinner. The truth is that I never thought see a landscape so strange: the main square was almost empty.
My parents told me that he had never seen the square and, in general, the center of the city as well, except in the era of terrorism. Now almost all businesses are focused on foreign public cerrados, las bancas, portales y graderías de la plaza están vacías y, en general, hemos dejado de tener afluencia turística.
Esto desde el punto de vista económico, es una crisis. Tanto los negocios en el centro de la ciudad como los pequeños comerciantes en el valle sagrado se encuentran sufriendo la misma situación: falta de consumidores, falta de ingresos, quiebra, etc. Ya no hace falta hablar del cierre de Machu Picchu, maravilla del mundo moderno, principal destino turístico del Perú y el Cuzco; el cual genera perdidas de millones de soles por día. Sumemos que lamentablemente las lluvias no cesan y no dan tregua para la recuperación; todo el valle sagrado ha sufrido daños posiblemente irreversible, ruined crops, flooded towns, etc.
Difficult to believe that everything will be solved at once. There is no miracle campaign to make immediate recovery, but you can take steps to begin recovery, it must be emphasized that the campaign puts Cuzco "and the sales price of airline tickets, hotels and restaurants are very good initiatives . Despite this, the solution focuses wrongly trying to attract tourists back to Cuzco, when the best short-term measure is to focus on Cuzco and national population.
The Cuzco know that all downtown businesses and, indeed, about the parade are expensive because they are focusing on foreign customers can spend the high prices normally. If these businesses lower their prices reasonable for customers and increase national Cuzco and the crisis at the moment would be less critical as it is now, these businesses are closed and no income, when taking the action described would be functioning normally with other public. That is the problem of wanting to make a move or wait for a "move" action "silver bullet" that solves the immediate problem, the crisis is totally up to the "bricheros" have lost their jobs.
Back to Cuzco was comforting as always, but I can not but express my regret at the situation, but nevertheless there are things redeemable. National solidarity is admirable, especially noteworthy Lima, who have sent their support to Cuzco the same way, university initiatives both in the same Cuzco and the rest of the country have been pretty good. It is impossible not to note that we are a united and supportive, despite all the differences and the distance around our people and our territory, but as has been demonstrated once we are all Peruvians. Andre Javier Murillo
Chávez "The Thinker" (http://jamchworld.blogspot.com) Cusco / Lima - Peru 
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