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en los dominios de la Pachamama… such relatable pain, shame and resentment from the indigenous schoolteacher, carrying the torment of misfortune of his people caused by the Spanish colonization and the modern civilization that sprung from it.

“…the communism gnawing at his entrails was no more than a natural longing for something better, a protest against persistent hunger transformed into a love for this strange doctrine, whose essence he could never grasp but whose translation, ‘bread for the poor’, was something which he understood and, more importantly, filled him with hope.”

and so it begins… the gaining of class consciousness, the longing for change, the beginning of radicalization…