In 1944 Segundo Eloy Villanueva, the smart, stuttering seventeen-year-old son of a farmer in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes, learned that his father, Álvaro, had been murdered. Álvaro, riding a horse to a neighboring town to do some business, was shot by a neighbor whom he had recently reproached for allowing cattle to run […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/03/09/an-amazonian-exodus-prophet-of-the-andes-graciela-mochkofsky/