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“What the natives do is trying so that the state recognizes in practice what iy recognizes in the law, that Peru is a pluricultural state and, therefore, requires multicultural and intercultural policies, and although in education and health something was made before and now they back down in the most culminating matter of how a country is ruled, politics, there is ignorance and very few experience about dealing with the difference.”

Peru: Views Towards the Indigenous Protests

“In numerous countries, they have became central actors of new processes that are planting the seeds of a multiethnic, pluricultural and plurilingual future which will be the guarantee of a peace full and harmonious coexistence in these pluralistic societies.”

On The International Day Of Indigenous Peoples

“México es un país vasto y pluricultural en el que cabemos indígenas, mestizos, gringos, socialistas, ateos, católicos, pochos, chicanos, y hasta pseudo-criollos arrogantes y excuyentes como tú.”

Replies to an upper-class mentality

“Lo que los indígenas hacen es intentar que el Estado reconozca en la práctica lo que reconoce en la ley, que el Perú es un Estado pluricultural y que por tanto requiere políticas multiculturales y/o interculturales y si bien en eduación y salud algo se hizo antes y ahora se retrocede, en el tema más álgido de cómo se gobierna un país, la política, hay desconocimiento y poca experiencia sobre cómo tratar con la diferencia.”

Peru: Views Towards the Indigenous Protests