La Boca Del Lobo Essay

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Through the study of the Peruvian society using articles like “The “Problem of the Indian...” and the Problem of the Land” by Jose Carlos Mariátegui and the Peruvian film La Boca del Lobo directed by Francisco Lombardi, it is learned that the identity of Peru is expressed through the Spanish descendants that live in cities or urban areas of Peru. In his essay, Mariátegui expresses that the creation of modern Peru was due to the tenure system in Peru and its Indigenous population. With the analyzation of La Boca del Lobo we will describe the native identity in Peru due to the Spanish treatment of Indians, power in the tenure system of Peru, the Indian Problem expressed by Mariátegui, and the implementation of Benedict Andersons “Imagined Communities”. …show more content…

Vitins military group is sent to Chuspis in order to protect the territory from being captured by the Sendero Luminoso which is a communist militant group that seeks to overthrow the Peruvian government of the time. As seen in the film, we learn that the Senderos, the members of this communist militia, are extremely cruel, vicious, and bloodthirsty in the way they execute indigenous people in the film that do not support them. After seeing these gruesome exxecutions the Lieutenant of Vitin’s military group decided to use the same method in hopes of gaining the support of the Indigenous people of Chuspis. Through this method of gaining support from indigenous people we see that these indigenous people were treated like trash, disrespected, and their rights were violated. Another example we see of this is when Vitin’s military group raid houses without consent with the excuse of looking for Indian Senderos in the population of Chuspis. With this we see that Spanish descendants (Military group) treat indigenous Indians like if they were animals without

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