(I should add that this anti-American-touristicism, maybe focused on Americans because of their dominance in numbers among Western tourists in Peru and association with US government policies, was entirely the locals', not that of the source of the story. The latter is/was kind of an USA-lover, and his longest global-tourism-on-the-cheap visit was to the USA, earning his money working at some summer camp.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}