... the town children collect for bingo games. The workers demand latrines and the company agrees to issue them, but only at Christmastime. In the bizarre, comic tone of the book, the strike and massacre of the workers is recalled through the memory of a child, which seems to undermine the horror of the Yankee exploitation. Colonel Lorenzo Gavilan leads the strikers into a brutal blood bath. The workers are slaughter and ... blamed for the horrible living conditions in the cities and the general corruption of nature. Llosa claims, "Everything man-made is ugly" and describes the city of Mal...

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