Neither Bread nor Circus
"Ni pan ni circo" is composed of forty poems grouped into four sections. It is the section called FRAGMENTOS in which the author addresses the theme of terrorism and political violence that the country experienced from 1980, through verses that speak of "distant villages inhabited by Quechua speakers and very humble people who were razed; towns turned into tombs without forgetting." Romualdo describes, through a successful poetic imagery, not the terrible events themselves but their consequences: the desolation, the pain, and the traces of death on the survivors and even on the landscape itself. The prologue of the book notes that in "Ni pan ni circo" the Peruvian drama of recent decades is present, along with expressions of lost illusions, desperation and outcry, disillusionment and fury in the face of a great political and ideological betrayal.