Word: lowlanders
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...people. At one point, 38,000 tons of food piled up in Peruvian ports, much of it rotting for lack of transport. Only a few hundred tons daily made its way up to the hills. Vast quantities were bought up by fast operators, who resold it to better-fed lowland folk at bargain prices. This maneuver was facilitated by the Peruvian government's decision to sell the food. The idea of charging a small sum, as one Peruvian explained at the time, was "to keep the Indians from developing a tendency to work less." The only trouble was that...