The Peruvian historian and cartoonist Carlos Rojas Feria was in the city of Huancavelica where we took the opportunity to interview him and he remembered part of the story.
Today he showed his book “Libertadores”
It is my last publication, from the end of 2021, there I tell the story of Independence, based on the popular contribution, it is the story from Túpac Amaru, to the Battle of Ayacucho, there the contribution of Afro-Peruvians, of the rabonas, of the women, of the guerrillas, of the montoneras.
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An engraving of Huancavelica is also shown
Part of my proposal is to use engravings, paintings that contextualize history, one of them has to do with Huancavelica, it is the drawing that Guamán Poma de Ayala made in relation to the city, write the name on one of his drawings, I tell the power economic that Huancavelica had as a mining area, where, based on the work of the town, many Creole, Spanish miners arrived, who took advantage of the wealth here, I graphic it with my own style, which is the irony developed through graphic humor.
There you see how the public system is established and therefore corruption.
There is a specific moment when the Creole miners find out that a new viceroy has arrived, we are talking about the 18th century and they say “a new viceroy came to the palace, we must go to Lima to ‘oil’ him”, that is written, in books like “History of Corruption” of Quiroz, where it was seen that the viceroys entered the corruption system where they received money.
