“Se van los peruanos… los mas testarudos se quedan”: La memoria y olvido de la Chilenización en el pueblo de Socoroma”, es una tesis doctoral que nace a partir de una serie de interrogantes que emergieron a partir de las memorias de algunos socoromeños a finales del año 2007. Asimismo, en esta misma época después de buscar diversas alternativas académicas para los estudios doctorales y con la ayuda de mi esposa y su insistencia postule al Programa de Estudios Andinos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

The implementation of the Bourbon reforms in the viceroyalty of Peru sought to limit the power of the viceroys and the influence of the Peruvian elite on the government, installing for this purpose greater control over the territory from the perspective of the ministers of the Council of the Indies. In this context, the general visit of the mayor Antonio Álvarez y Ximénez to the district of Arica, made between 1793 and 1796, aimed at understanding the state of the province and solving problems linked to the economy, population, justice, security and colonial bureaucracy. The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze part of the implementation of the Bourbon reforms in the Arica district, and its political, economic and social consequences.

The implementation of the Bourbon reforms in the viceroyalty of Peru sought to limit the power of the viceroys and the influence of the Peruvian elite on the government, installing for this purpose greater control over the territory from the perspective of the ministers of the Council of the Indies. In this context, the general visit of the mayor Antonio Álvarez y Ximénez to the district of Arica, made between 1793 and 1796, aimed at understanding the state of the province and solving problems linked to the economy, population, justice, security and colonial bureaucracy. The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze part of the implementation of the Bourbon reforms in the Arica district, and its political, economic and social consequences.

“Se van los peruanos… los mas testarudos se quedan”: La memoria y olvido de la Chilenización en el pueblo de Socoroma”, es una tesis doctoral que nace a partir de una serie de interrogantes que emergieron a partir de las memorias de algunos socoromeños a finales del año 2007. Asimismo, en esta misma época después de buscar diversas alternativas académicas para los estudios doctorales y con la ayuda de mi esposa y su insistencia postule al Programa de Estudios Andinos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

De orientación más teórico-metodológica es el aporte de Carlos Choque «¡Se van los peruanos…los más testarudos se quedan!». La memoria y el olvido de la chilenización en el pueblo de Socoroma. Socoroma es un pueblo aimara de la serranía de Arica, cuyos habitantes fueron objeto de un prolongado y violento proceso de «chilenización», cuando, luego de la Guerra del Pacífico (1879-1883), la entera provincia peruana de Tarapacá pasó bajo el control del vecino Estado sureño.

The implementation of the Bourbon reforms in the viceroyalty of Peru sought to limit the power of the viceroys and the influence of the Peruvian elite on the government, installing for this purpose greater control over the territory from the perspective of the ministers of the Council of the Indies. In this context, the general visit of the mayor Antonio Álvarez y Ximénez to the district of Arica, made between 1793 and 1796, aimed at understanding the state of the province and solving problems linked to the economy, population, justice, security and colonial bureaucracy. The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze part of the implementation of the Bourbon reforms in the Arica district, and its political, economic and social consequences.

This article analyzes the Hispanic-indigenous economic and cultural articulation during the second half of the 16th century in the southern area of ​​Colesuyu, located in the current region of Arica and Parinacota. The study tries to provide new background for the understanding of the cultural space of Colesuyu, as well as the economic and political relations that developed throughout this period and its importance for the construction of the ethnic identity of the indigenous population.