Voices from the Global Margin: Confronting Poverty and Inventing New Lives in the Andes

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: A Personal and Intellectual Odyssey 1 1. Pablo and Claudia: Peasant Farming 7 2. Horacio and Benjamina: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class 37 3. Horacio and Benjamina: Confronting Village Poverty 60 4. Martín: Confronting Migrant Poverty 76 5. Valentina: From Bride by Capture to International Migrant 97 6. Triga: Guerrilla War, Cocaine, and Commerce 123 7. El Comandante Tigre: The Peasant Patrols and War 147 8. Anastasio: Fleeing Shining Path 172 9. At the Margin of the Shifting World 202 Notes 221 Glossary 233 Bibliography 239 Index 255 APOTHECARY: Who calls so loud? ROMEO: Come hither, man. I see thou art poor; Hold, there is forty ducats; let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins That the life-weary taker may fall dead. . . . APOTHECARY: Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua’s law Is death to any he that utters them. ROMEO: And fears’t to die? famine is in thy cheeks, Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes, . . . The world is not thy friend nor the world’s law: The world affords no law to make thee rich; Then be not poor, but break it, and take this. APOTHECARY: My poverty, but not my will, consents. ROMEO: I pay thy poverty and not thy will. —Romeo and Juliet, Act V,Scene I ...