Pirates of the Pacific terrorize artisanal fishers on the Peruvian coast

Pirates of the Pacific terrorize artisanal fishers on the Peruvian coast

It’s November, springtime in Cancas, a coastal community in northern Peru, and the sea is calm; it only gets rough at the beginning of summer, which in the Southern Hemisphere falls at the end of the year, and in the last days of August. In the afternoons, when the sky is purple, the tide goes out and leaves behind a muddy beach populated by small crustaceans that scatter about as tourists amble by. The water, now a deep blue, is inhabited by se…

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It’s November, springtime in Cancas, a coastal community in northern Peru, and the sea is calm; it only gets rough at the beginning of summer, which in the Southern Hemisphere falls at the end of the year, and in the last days of August. In the afternoons, when the sky is purple, the tide goes out and leaves behind a muddy beach populated by small crustaceans that scatter about as tourists amble by. The water, now a deep blue, is inhabited by sea