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The New Peru
Maiuategui, Jose Carlos | January 16, 1929 issue

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The Peruvian republic has meant the intrenchment of a ruling class which has gradually and systematically absorbed and possessed itself of the land. To a people whose tradition, whose very soul, is the land, this dispossession has meant material and moral bankruptcy. The land has always been the joy of the Indian; he feels that "life comes from the soil, and goes back to it"; he can maintain indifference to everything, except the loss of the land which his hands and his spirit occupy and make fertile.

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PERU -- Politics & government; PERU -- Civilization; PERU -- Economic conditions; SOCIAL classes; BANKRUPTCY; PERU
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