Our brother Alfredo participated in the Cycle of Conversations ‘Open Classrooms - Heading to the Bicentennial’, organized by the Cajamarcan Municipality.
On this occasion, Alfredo reflected on the fateful date of 16th November 1532. What happened that day should be taken into account not only by the people of Cajamarca, but by the whole country and the world. “We cannot imagine what a huge wound may have been left in the survivors after the massacre; a population that was accustomed and that had among its paradigms the celebration of life, the celebration of affection, the celebration of solidarity, the minga.”
He also indicated that after 588 years, “this tragedy has not passed, it is not something that has been left behind; we are referring to something that in many ways continues to happen.”
“For this reason, in the Rural Library Network of Cajamarca, every 16th November, for more than 30 years, we commemorate 'The Day of Here We Are', because despite the massacres and despite everything that happened and continues to happen, we continue standing, we continue walking. We have never perceived ourselves as defeated but as community members who remain on the path that our grandparents taught us. Not to celebrate the conquest, not to commemorate death, but at least to pay tribute to those who fell, those innocents who fell by the hands of this, not encounter, but, in fact, this massacre that nobody expected.”
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