Word: sullupucyo
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...centuries, the peasants of Sullupucyo have accepted their lot. But in the past year, leaders of the Communist-lining Social Progressive Movement (M.S.P.) have succeeded in organizing a number of peasant unions. For the first time, Luna's peasants are beginning to mutter that they will refuse to work the four days for the hacienda unless they get more for it-and will not be evicted. When Luna had 18 squatters arrested recently for trespassing, the hacienda's peasant union, through their lawyer in Cuzco, got the men freed. Hacendado Luna does not see any need for agrarian...
...hacienda is called Sullupucyo, which in Quechua, the language of the Incas who ruled the Andes for 300 years, means "place of the fountain." It sits in an 11,000-ft.-high intermont basin 300 miles southeast of Lima, and covers 15,000 acres. The owner is Abelardo Luna, 35, who descends from the Spanish conquerors; he lives in a mansion in Cuzco and visits his property two or three times a week. To produce livestock and truck crops, the hacienda is worked by 500 Indian peasants known as colonos...
Three days each week, Sullupucyo's peasants are permitted to work for themselves. Although Luna denies it, the peasants charge that their market is controlled by the hacienda, which buys their surplus produce at considerably less than market price. Failure to sell, as failure to accept any other hacienda rule, they say, means immediate eviction...
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