Peru Diction Quiz

On Ernesto’s journey with Alberto they traveled to Chile and now to Peru. In Peru they saw many INDIGENT people and it was something they were not used to seeing. Back in Argentina “where the poor have as much as the rich and the Indian isn’t exploited or treated as severely as he is in this country” (p. 91, Guevara). He was very DISQUIETING by this and thought that they should be treated the same as the rich. When he arrived to Cuzco, he described it as alluring with colorful tile roofs and the people there were MESTIZOS. He had also described the Incans and their BEFALLEN empire. He described the different social classes such as the PARIAHS which were the social outcast people. The Incan’s empire was RAZED by the Spanish. When they left Cuzco Ernesto became TEDIOUS and he asthma became more FATAL. They did not have that much money for food so SUSTENANCE was hard and they had to beg people for money just so they could eat and live.