Perla Gavidia is of Peruvian origin but has been living in Spain for decades. She recently became unemployed; she had worked for 20 years at the cafeteria of the Moncloa Palace, home of the Spanish Prime Minister and his family, but recently there was a reshuffling of personnel and she was fired. "They threw me out on the street," she says. Since then she has been collecting unemployment benefits.
On the morning of December 22, she was at the Royal Theater in Madrid, where the drawing for the “Gordo” (the “Fat Prize”), Spain's popular lottery, was being held. She was with her daughter and son.
