Word: sacsahuaman
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...raise their self-confidence and their consciousness of their own problems," he said. "The people have lived these days like a celebration." Peru was the Pope's last South American stop, and the spectacular settings were hardly more dramatic than his words. After speaking at the Incan fortress of Sacsahuaman to 80,000 Indians, Pope John Paul chose the impoverished region surrounding Ayacucho to make his boldest political gesture since his visit to Poland in 1983. The area has been terrorized for four years by the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas. Some 4,000 people have been killed, and human rights...
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