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...welcoming speeches. Their own speeches had an archaic ring, like the protests of medieval peasants centuries ago. They protested against forced labor, rapacious landlords, priests who demanded disproportionate fees for religious services. They pleaded for popular education. They wanted schools, books, modern agricultural science. Said their leader, Francisco Chipana, an Aymara: "We must learn and work. . . . Soon we shall rise like condors above Mt. Illimani.... Through our own efforts, we can surpass those foreigners whose works we now admire...
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