Abelardo Alzamora: Maestro, campesino y escritor de Yapatera
Item
- Title
- Abelardo Alzamora: Maestro, campesino y escritor de Yapatera
- Subject
- Landscapes
- Description
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Two pages showing several subsequent frames in shades of brown, oker, and sepia. The first page shows how Abelardo Zamora, wishing to join the ideal of defending people in poverty due to dispossession, in the 1970s, joined a movement of landless peasants who had been left out of the agrarian reform. The drawings show peasant men and women who work in the fields and raise wooden sticks on their hands to demand justice. The final text summarizes: "This mass of peasants who were not always considered suffered oppression, oblivion in the peasant world, and even oppression from their own partners at the cooperative. That is why in 1979 the largest invasion of agricultural lands took place in upper Piura."
The second page shows the first experience of land eviction by the army, which Abelardo Zamora experienced. Soldiers armed with batons and shields destroy a precarious peasant settlement with a bulldozer while chasing children, women and men –including Abelardo– who flee, in terror, carrying their few belongings. The first frame of the page says: "But this land seizure ended in a bloody eviction and what was my first persecution." - Country
- Peru
- Date
- 2021
- Source
- Link to electronic resource
- Item sets
- CORALA
- Site pages
- Protest Lines