Epidemic and society in the Valle de La Convencion, 1932

• Autor: Cueto, Marcos
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 1991
• Institución: Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.ucsp.edu.pe:article/821
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.ucsp.edu.pe/index.php/Allpanchis/article/view/821
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: epidemia; Cusco; siglo XX; 20th Century

When the highway reached Quillabamba, at the end of 1932, its inhabitants could not help but celebrate with some dances in the halls of the Macamango house-hacienda. Surely some danced thinking that it was the last time they did it. Not because there was nothing to celebrate in the future of the town in progress, but because a terrible malaria epidemic had also reached the city. That day with a metaphor of modernity and death, those who celebrated the arrival of the highway, danced in the same building in whose basement the first victims of the epidemic had already taken refuge.