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born 1969 Bolivia
Rafael Quispe (born 24 October 1969) is a Bolivian indigenous activist and politician who served as general executive director of the Indigenous Development Fund from 2019 to 2020, in addition to a number of other political posts.
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The message you give to people is better accepted with humor.
If you have to go to jail for denouncing corruption, I'm going to go.
If for helping my brothers, for handing out surgical masks, for guiding, they have to remove me, let them remove me.
I do striking things, but I do them so that the people understand ... in a didactic way what is happening in the country.
I don't want to be president because to be president is to be a prisoner of the transnationals, of the llunkus, to be a prisoner of a colonial state ...
... [he who] does not speak his native language is not indigenous; he is a false indigenous ...
I am a believer in Pachamama, but I also believe in God. They both merge. Leaving the house, we pray to God, but at the moment when you pass a large mountain—which for us are the wak'as, the sacred places—we pray to Pachamama.
I am the pitita that unites the k'aras with the Indians, East and West. We have to be one. The goal is one, the welfare of the other. Enough left and right ...
[Our party] must [have] a renewal of leadership; new people in politics in this country ... professionals, middle class, and Indians; the Indians cannot be on the sidelines.
We thought that [Evo Morales] represented hope, we identified with him. He won, we gave him all the power. But the process has given us nothing. It has been all discourse, no application. He speaks of Mother Earth, and he is the foremost violator of Mother Earth.
My mother was a very wise woman; she had the fundamental principles of respect for life, respect for our nature, for the worldview; she was a great believer in nature, in the wacas, in the illas; she guided me in the life of our peoples.
... those of us who comply with the Constitution ... fear nothing; [I] fear only God... and my wife.
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