http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8480013.stm
This is why market societies are perverted, and even more perverted by the legacies of colonial racism. In a cost-benefit analysis, it becomes necessary to save tourists than it is to save Andean peasants. Tourists tell their friends that in spite of natural disasters they will be cared for (therefore assuring future visitors of the safety of the country and the continuation of the multi-million dollar tourism economy). Saving freezing children and parents in nearby Puno, and those that lost their crops and homes in the department Cusco, are worth hardly anything.