One day Peru was the Viceroyalty of Lima, an axis for the Spanish conquerors in South America, the first viceroyalty in the region, and it was so large that it went from the Pacific to the Atlantic, through the Amazon, including what is now Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, and northern Brazil.
In 1565, when the Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada was created, and before Gonzalo Pizarro's attempt to separate this Viceroyalty from Spain, through the Rebellion of the Encomenderos, and create the first free territory in America.
The creation of the Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada or Santa Fe de Bogotá, which divided the Royal Audience of Quito between the two viceroyalties and reduced the prominence of Lima, as the most important viceroyalty and port in South America, gave importance to Guayaquil, Cartagena, Panama or Caracas as ports and Bogota as a more educated viceroyalty, where exporters of sugar, alcohol and importers of blacks did great business.
The incredibly rich Viceroyalty of Peru, where the silver from Upper Peru, today Bolivia, came from Potosí to Mexico, the Philippines, and China, through the Pacific while, to the Atlantic, it went out through the Ríos de la Plata, to the Port of Buenos Aires, which later became the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.
Lima lost a lot when Napoleon defeated Spain, England defeated Spain and France at Trafalgar and devastated the Spanish colonies, by expelling the Jesuits, financed the wars of independence in Latin America, and China was defeated by England, in the War of Opium. ceasing to import silver from Potosí.
Since those days of the colony, in Peru a bureaucracy, an aristocracy was created, based on a Holy Inquisition, an extremely racist, sexist, macho army, full of laws, lawyers, judges, traps, conspiracies, deceit, priests, who are the origin of the current Peruvian justice, and since the independence of masses pregnant with stupefying patriotism, conservative fanaticism, where being an atheist, idolater, non-Catholic, mestizo, Indian, black, mulatto, fag or whore, was to be the last thing, the First, as the most important song in Peru sings, it was to be a gentleman ..... CABALLERO DE FINA ESTAMPA A LUCERO THAT SHADOWS UNDER A HAT, where prostitution and everything illegal, especially gold, women, machismo, alcoholism, popular festivals are the centers of village life, since 1532, when greed arrived, converted by virtue of the adventurous and risky Spanish conquerors.
For 200 years, Peru has experienced a slow and irreversible disintegration, a prolonged agony that hits the majority of the population, which now overflows and multiplies, as emigrants, as poor, as malnourished, and of little stature, this is replicated to along the Andes of Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador, which since the Spanish conquest have been smaller each generation, compared to the European conquerors, who were smaller than the indigenous people in the 16th century, but on the contrary, in each generation, they are higher, since the conquest of the New World.
This biological deterioration began with the subjugation of the natives to the haciendas, mines, and factories, as poorly fed laborers, the lack of iodine, protein, and oxygen, which even turned endemic cretinism into a regional pathology until the 1990s.
The long agony of Peru is also due to the fact that since Francisco Pizarro, who married a sister of Atahualpa and recommended that his soldiers marry indigenous people, giving rise to miscegenation in South America, he turned Lima into the center of the Viceroyalty, but Lima evolved into the largest slum, the slum, in South America on the Pacific.
Since the time of Mariscal La Mar, the first president of Peru, this city, which is a world apart from the rest of this huge Andean-Amazonian country in the Pacific and is a city where poverty becomes massive misery, which occupies an uncountable number of blocks in a place where it almost never rains, dry and with a cold ocean due to the presence of the Humboldt Current, which is full of fish and seabirds, which turned Peru into an exporter of fish and guano, the main natural fertilizer in the world.
LIMA the Rome, of the Pacific Coast, and of PERU, for 500 years, concentrates the power of an entire country, in an exaggerated way. But, due to the demographic explosion and the poverty that lives in Peru, because everything is controlled from Lima, from the occupation of the Peruvian territory, which expands through highways, transportation, land, air, and maritime communications, to the fact that information and knowledge are concentrated in the capital through universities that have 500 years of history, they are the first in America, to a press, radio, television, toxic, bloodthirsty, sick, that turns ugly, violent, exciting and vulgar in a public spectacle, in a circus for the people, to satellite telephony and communication, which covers the entire territory, but which are completely centralized and administered from LIMA, which is a different world from the rest of the country.
Migrations, especially to the Amazon, or outside the country, and to Lima, which are out of control, have turned LIMA into the largest slum in South America, in the Pacific, in the city that puts and removes presidents of exclusively, that with blood and fire rejects a president who is not a resident of Lima, much worse, who is not A CABALLERO DE FINA ESTAMPA UN LUCERO, who is an Indian, who became only a rural teacher, like PEDRO CASTILLO , not a notable writer, lawyer, businessman, official or professor at the prestigious University of San Marcos in Lima, and it would be worse if he were a coca-growing Indian like Evo Morales.
Today Peru is the most successful narco-economy in South America, the largest producer of coca leaves, and the second largest cocaine producer in the world, but the curious thing, unlike Colombia, which is the first, is that cocaine and gold, they are not cartels, nor people at the service of cartels, they are small businessmen, families that cultivate it, process it, or extract gold from the rivers and personally travel to the places where they sell their product to the best buyer, or to the one who is most near.
In addition, trafficking and sexual exploitation, which is another of the big businesses in Peru, was and continues to be sponsored and popularized by the Peruvian army, as Vargas Llosa tells it in his novel Pantaleon and the Visitors.
Finally, the unstoppable growth of the Peruvian economy, the only one that shows positive figures in Latin America, is also due to the fact that it is not only a narco-economy, because illegal immigrants extract, buy and sell gold, as well as women traffickers, who This is the engine of the rural economy of the country, but in the cities the informal, those who every day invent what to do, what to sell, the unemployed, the unemployed, who are the vast majority in Peruvian cities, are the engines from the cities of this country, carrying whatever, selling food, trafficking people to the United States and Europe, bringing remittances or taking from guinea pigs, alpaca or llama fabrics, clothes, shoes, lemons, meat, medicinal plants, or Peruvian food to those countries or neighboring countries.
