Julio César Arana del Águila, (1864–1952) was a

Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Fi ...

vian entrepreneur and politician. A major figure in the

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industry in the upper

Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology c ...

basin, he is probably best known in the English-speaking world through 's 1909 articles in the British magazine ''Truth'', accusing him of practices that amounted to a terroristic reign of slavery over the natives of the region. A company of which he was the general manager, the

Peruvian Amazon Company The Peruvian Amazon Company, also called the Anglo-Peruvian Amazon Rubber Co, was a rubber boom company that operated in Peru in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Based in Iquitos, it became notorious for the ill treatment of its indigenous workers ...

, was investigated by a commission in 1910 on which

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served. He was appointed its liquidator in September 1911. He later blamed the downfall of the company on the British directors for neglecting to manage the Peruvian staff,"The Peruvian Amazon Company: No Return to Shareholders"
''The Advertiser'' (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Mar 20 1914. retr 2012 9 24 from http://trove.nla.gov.au of whom he was chief. Arana became a senator for the Department of Loreto from 1922–26 and, as a result of the Salomon-Lozano Treaty, signed in Lima in 1927, Peru transferred his properties in the Putumayo to

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. He died at age 88, penniless, in a small house in

Magdalena del Mar Magdalena del Mar, commonly known simply as Magdalena, is a seaside district of the Lima Province in Peru and one of the districts that comprise the city of Lima. Its current mayor is Carlomagno Chacón Gómez. Magdalena was officially establishe ...

, near Lima.

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1864 births 1952 deaths {{Peru-politician-stub