John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn “Los de Abajo” (“Those Who Live Below”), Gregorio’s family, once moneyed livestock owners, has fallen on hard times, its herd reduced to one cow, its laborers now dead or departed for the local big city.For some years, his water supply, which used to reach his lands via an old aqueduct, has been cut off, diverted by the mayor to water the vineyards of a rich Argentine landowner who lives higher up by the dam and pays the mayor kickbacks.
Often drunk over his wife’s death, Gregorio obsesses about getting his water back again. As his frustration boils, he looks to be on a frontal collision course with the landowner.
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