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Rafael Tobar, Cecilio Plata and Aquileo Torres were imprisoned by Peruvians onboard the Putumayo in July of 1901 before being sent to prison at Iquitos.[1]
The vocabulary list of Huitoto words in Joaquin Rocha's Memorandum de viaje is attributed to Torres.[2]
^ This appears to be around the time that Aquileo Torres captured Elias Martinengui.
“The story of Aquiléo Torres” [1906-1909]
[edit]“This unfortunate man is accused of having attempted to conquer Indians from Caqueta…”[b] Author of that statement writes that Torres was kept in chains in a house at Puerto Tarma and the chain weighed 3 arrobas. {{efn|”and when the employees of guard him get drunk they make him the target of their cowardly, clumsy and cruel attacks as they spit on him, slap him, kick him, whip him vilely, cowardly and heartlessly. These acts are carried out by Fidel Velarde, Aliaga and other employees.” - page 8 Valcarcel 1915. "Against Aquileo Torres a seemingly special rancour existed. This Colombian, who, I was told, had been a 'corregidor,' or divisional magistrate, in the Colombia territory of Caqueta..."[5]
Employment with the Peruvian Amazon Company
[edit]- Torres was captured by a group of Peruvians [along with several Barbadians] led by Armando Normand near the end of 1906. At the time, Torres was working with the rubber firm Urbano Gutierrez near the Caqueta River. See Hardenburg for the first depositions to mention the assault against Urbano Gutierrez on the Caqueta and the capturing of Torres. Barbadian depositions and further information from eyewitnesses may be found in Casement 1997 and Slavery in Peru 1913. Several different managers of the Peruvian Amazon company were responsible for Torres’s continued incarceration. These managers include: Armando Normand, Fidel Velarde, Abelardo Agüero and Augusto Jiménez Seminario.
- "Aquileo Torres, you will be interested to learn, was accidentally drowned on Christmas Day. He was on the Witoto with Aguero, Alcorta and Burke, and when the launch was tied up to the bank, went overboard for a swim and was never seen again..." - Casement 2003 page with footnote 146
- Casement 2003 footnote 146: "This was the Columbian captured in 1907 - see my report. I felt convinced he had been sent to Abisinia to be got rid of in same way. They dared not dismiss him. He was an infamous ruffian, but they had helped to make him so - and if they sent him away with the others he could always 'split' - to his own government and give Columbia a splendid argument against the Peruvian recuperation of the disputed territory."
^Self noting, Abisinia was an "in land" station[6] and Casement did not journey to that station during the 1910 commission.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Both Victor Macedo and Chirif's information claim that Gregorio Calderon, with the aid of a Colombian garrison from a location named San Gregorio, instigated a rebellion at Ultimo Retiro against Casa Arana.[3][4]
- ^ He was incarcerated by the Peruvian Amazon Company because the latter believed that “all the Indians who live in those regions are the sole and exclusive property of the feudal lords of the gallows and knife, lives and estates ‘J.C. Arana y Hermanos” page 8 of Valcarcel 1915, I believe Valcarcel is quoting Benjamin Saldaña Rocca.
Sources
[edit]- Casement, Roger (1997). The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement. Anaconda editions. ISBN 1901990052.
- Hardenburg, Walter (1912). The Putumayo, the Devil's Paradise; Travels in the Peruvian Amazon Region and an Account of the Atrocities Committed Upon the Indians Therein. London: Fischer Unwin. ISBN 1372293019.
- Valcárcel, Carlos (2004). El proceso del Putumayo y sus secretos inauditos. The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.
- Chirif, Alberto (2009). Imaginario e imágenes de la época del caucho: Los sucesos del Putumayo. The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.
- Goodman, Jordan (2010). The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-1429936392.
- Rocha, Joaquín (1905). Memorandum de viaje: (regiones amazonicas) [Travel memorandum: (Amazon regions)] (in Spanish). Casa editorial de "El Mercurio," G. Forero Franco, propietario.
References
[edit]- ^ Thomson 1912, p. 53.
- ^ Rocha 1905, p. 135.
- ^ a b Chirif 1991, p. 89-90.
- ^ Valcarcel 2004, p. 287.
- ^ Casement 2003, p. 175.
- ^ Slavery in Peru 1913, p. 287.