Life in the Andes is difficult and basic. Some groups still believe in elemental spirits according to old superstitions. In desperation and poverty, workers at a camp committed the unthinkable by sacrificing humans to appease what they thought was the anger of these spirits.

1. Death In The AndesLife in the Andes is hard and primitive.

2. The old superstitions, beliefs in spirits of the elements and terrain still exist with some sects of the culture. Fear and poverty caused the laborers in the work camp to do the unthinkable, sacrifice human beings to these spirits to appease their presumed anger.