Do you enjoy dressing small, furry rodents in various costumes, often involving miniature hats that require the use of various staples to stay put? Do you then like to eat the animal you’ve just mortified and tortured? Huacho, Peru...

It’s the dirty little secret all upwardly mobile Hispanics try to hide. During the big job interview or at an appearance before the co-op board, we pray no one knows—or at the very least remembers—that in Peru the people...