Legal support in Peru
![Manuel Jauregue, wrongly convicted of terrorism, won his freedom with the help of CEAS, who helped him set up a shoe-making business [Annie Bungeroth]](/var/storage/images/media/cafod/images/latin_america_caribbean/peru/man_sitting_with_three_girls/6672-1-eng-GB/man_sitting_with_three_girls_medium.jpg)
Manuel Jauregue is one of many Peruvians who were imprisoned without fair trial during the violence of the 1980s and 1990s
Manuel was wrongly convicted of terrorism, but won his freedom with the help of CEAS, who went on to help him set up a small shoe-making business.
Manuel and his family live in a shack with a corrugated iron roof in Collique, a village in the foothills near the Peruvian capital, Lima.
“Here in Collique there’s no running water or drainage. We have to pay [50p] for a cylinder of water that lasts about three days if you don’t need to wash any clothes – it’s linked to a hosepipe twice a week."
“I receive some help from CEAS. But many other people are trying to do the same thing, so it’s hard to make a living. I make about [£37] per month. One of the problems is that imports have taken away the market.”
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