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Indians and Leftists 

This is an Electronic Appendix of documents to accompany my book Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements (Duke University Press, 2008).


Guachalá Hacienda Production (1930-1933)

Year

Gross Income

Expenses

Net Income

1930

127,125.71

108,104.65

19,021.06

1931

99,231.71

45,369.00

53,862.71

1932

52,524.11

24,714.55

27,809.56

1933

69,985.68

13,731.85

56,253.83

Total

348,867.21

191,920.05

156,947.16

Average

87,216.80

47,980.01

39,236.79

Source: Detalle de la producción de Guachalá, Archivo Histórico del Banco Central del Ecuador, Fondo Bonifaz (AH/BC), Quito, 17/A/5.

Number of Workers on Guachalá Hacienda (1763-1892)

Year

Workers out of debt

Workers in debt to the hacienda

Total number of workers

1763

114 (66%)

60 (34%)

174

1783

141 (60%)

93 (40%)

234

1819

76 (29%)

183 (71%)

259

1892

159 (36%)

280 (64%)

439

Source: Archivo Histórico del Banco Central del Ecuador, Fondo Bonifaz (AH/BC), Quito; Emilio Bonifaz, "Origen y evolución de una hacienda histórica: 'Guachalá' II," Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Historia (BANH) 53, no. 116 (July-December 1970): 349.
Note: Galo Ramón V., La resistencia andina: Cayambe, 1500-1800, Cuaderno de discusión Popular no. 14 (Quito: Centro Andino de Acción Popular, 1987), 249-50 lists quite different figures, and includes 1772 but omits 1892.

Peasant Cost of Living Index (1771-1995)
(Number of days' work required to purchase product)

Year

Cow

Sheep

Horse

Corn

(100 lbs.)

Potatoes

(100 lbs.)

1771

20

10

32

2

3

1783

24

2.5

18

*

*

1819

28

10

*

18

*

1891

60

3

300

10

15

1970

133

7

133

4

3

1995

150

40

60

3.4

3

*Information not available
Source: Archivo Histórico del Banco Central del Ecuador, Fondo Bonifaz (AH/BC), Quito; Emilio Bonifaz, "Origen y evolución de una hacienda histórica: 'Guachalá' II," Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Historia (BANH) 53, no. 116 (July-December 1970): 346; Diego Bonifaz Andrade, Guachalá: Historia de una hacienda de Cayambe (Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1995), 38-39.


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