Apu Mallku - Quotations

Quotations

We are a single Qullana people who speak Quechua and Aymara, at the moment divided in to four Latin American states, which hurts us much; but the wound is still open and one day we will reconstitute the first great Collasuyu and soon the powerful Tawantinsuyu, dear brothers, remembers that we are only one people. —Max Paredes, former Apu Mallku, 2000 The 500 years of Indian resistance have not been in vain. From 500 years of resistance we pass to another 500 years in power. The will of the people was imposed...and has begun to overcome the empire's cannons. We have lived for so many years through the confrontation of two cultures: the culture of life represented by the indigenous people, and the culture of death represented by West. —Evo Morales, Apu Mallku, 2006