The Invisible Hierarchies in the City of Abancay

Excerpts from the Foreword: "In order to face this enormous challenge - which is nothing less than confronting the history of the country, a history built and legitimized by hegemonic groups that have silenced and naturalized it - APRODEH offers a substantive contribution to addressing this issue through this diagnostic report prepared by our friend and colleague Claire Reid. A document elaborated in and from one of the regional capitals most severely struck by the internal armed conflict, Abancay in Apurímac, which today is by no means immune to the practice of discrimination in its various forms. This document, which develops an incisive theoretical analysis of discrimination, contextualizes the origin of the problem, analyzes perceptions and descriptions in the city of Abancay, and better yet, proposes political strategies to confront it; it is presented calmly and seriously so that it may be debated in academic circles and from the field of human rights activists (...) La Cadena, discrimination - a problem that it makes no difference whether one calls it racial or ethnic - is at its core a political and social fact inscribed in our historical process and our current reality. In this sense, the document is also a tool that can contribute to the formulation of comprehensive public policies that encourage the implementation of the National Human Rights Plan, as well as the recommendations of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación, such as institutional reforms, reparations, and legal prosecution."