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The Politics of Colonialism in the Andes

In the amazon, you have a very different trajectory where the indigenous movement arises not out of conflicts in the agricultural sector, over land and labor. But more as a response to, as you quoted me, this dual threat. On the one hand, state led colonization of the amazon was officially called colonization. The people who moved there are called colonis, exactly, coolonists,. And actually their communities lived in sort of large swaths of territory for fishing, for hunting, for living? So they had these cultural systems that were now coming into conflict with a direct conflict with a colonizing force. It wasn't the spanish, right? You know, it wasn't the

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