La Paisana Jacinta revolves around the “peasant Jacinta” of the title – played by male comedian Jorge Benavides in the sterotypical garb of indigenous women, with blacked-out teeth and a ...

Its the story of a naive Peruvian native who goes to Lima, Peru, in order to gain fortune, on her way back to her hometown, she discovers that her ,(almost, as she said it) husband has gone to ...

One such caricature, La Paisana Jacinta (The Peasant Jacinta), became so popular it got its own weekday prime-time show. Played by a man in drag wearing a wig with plaits, a prosthetic nose and ...