by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“Madness is the purest, most total form of qui pro quo. It takes the false for the true, death for life….and the victim for Minos”. - Foucault (Madness and Civilisation)
( October 6, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Ciudad Constitution is a name unknown to most Peruvians, but this insignificant town-let of around 8,000 people was once destined to be Peru’s magnificent new capital. Few abandoned ‘model houses’ and a functioning highway are the sole relics of that grandiose project, commenced in 1984 by President Belaunde Terry. Bedevilled by financial troubles and corruption charges, the project to build a capital in the jungle was abandoned when its author lost the Presidential election in 1985.
