Hija de la laguna

“Mama Yaku, in your bowels, there is gold. Do you know why they are coming to take it”? This is Nélida’s question to her spiritual mother, the guardian water spirit. This prayer, like an uninterrupted flowing stream from the soul of a young Andean peasant girl, is shaking an entire country and thwarting a destructive gold mining scheme.

* Introduced by Tarcila Rivera Zea (representative for indigenous peoples, United Nations)