Word: patres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patrón. Vicos' plight was ancient. Spanish conquistadores reduced the Inca population there (and all along the high Andes) to feudal serfdom; with independence from Spain, Peru had merely converted the fief into government property leased at about $800 a year to patrones, who got the Indian workers along with the land. The deadening centuries had stripped the Indians of all their skills, pleasures, and arts, and even of the imagination to conceive of a happier...
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