Dedicated to Jesús Lara

11 DEDICATED TO JESÚS LARA who was born in 1898 who was a child growing up in Cochabamba, beaten by his teachers for speaking Quechua who as a man grew to be the scholar of Quechua Quechua language Quechua people who wrote essays, novels, poems who made a dictionary of Quechua who in 1972, at 74, published INTI PEREDO, HIS LIFE AND DEATH the complete edition seized by the government and burnt: in the main square of La Paz (lnti Peredo, guerrilla with Che Guevara's band, 12 was also in fact as the hand to the heart Jesús Lara's son-in-law) who would not stop, whose smoke could not tear itself away from the scorcht earth of childhood nor drifting disappear with medals ribbons into the thin air of La Paz who stuck to his guns such as they were who went on, spreading the word ...