When Poetry is made from the Scream: A Translation of Os Crimes de Putumayo

• Autor(a) principal: dos Santos Fernandes, José Guilherme
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Tradução (Florianópolis. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/traducao/article/view/91672
• topic: Tradução; Putumayo; Genocídio de Indígenas; Economia da Borracha; Translation; Putumayo; Indigenous Genocide; Rubber Economy

This study refers to the first chapter of the judicial processconcerning crimes perpetrated by rubber tappers installed in the Amazonregion of Putumayo, in Peru, during the 1910s, which generated thebook El Proceso de Putumayo y sus Secretos Inauditos (Iquitos, Perú:CETA, 2004). The author Carlos A. Valcárcel, first judge of the process,produces a final text that goes beyond the perspective of the jurisconsultand prints the humanist vision in line with the dawn of the 20th century.The chapter under translation for this study – The crimes of Putumayo – isconstructed by a discourse that frankly assumes a posture of indignationdue to the blatant irresponsibility and omission of the Peruvian penalsystem, which provoked the criminals’ impunity and the only historicalpenalty, of the criminals. indigenous people who suffered genocide.Therefore, the translation of this chapter reveals the evident break of the objective judicial discourse and shows us an author-judge frankly taken by opinion and indignation.