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People of the Andes: Challenges Facing the People of the Altiplano |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Thomas Molnar |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 3,965 Words, 23,337 Characters |
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In the background of the news from South America - liberation theology, Castro's propaganda, revolutions, and changes of regimes - there is a mysterious people living on the high peaks and plateaus of the Andes. They are mysterious perhaps because they were isolated and lived under the colonial conditions and conquests for almost a thousand years. Organized first by the Inca rulers of a vast empire on the Pacific coast, then colonized and Christianized by the Spaniards they finally became independent in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.
But what does independence mean to the Aymara and Quechua tribal-linguistic groups, the historical inhabitants of the Andes, people still very different from the white and mestizo descendants of the Spaniards? Very often, the people of the...
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...y are profiting by the status quo. Lately, a restless Catholic clergy has been added to this statue quo, but it too is divided along the whole gamut of existing political forces.
One has the impression that the still-not-integrated Amerindians are watching with a kind of somber amusement the quarrels of the conquistadors who are still unable, after five centuries to share the spoils.
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