There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

The media and politics have never allowed our people to speak through them. The absolute marginalization of the indigenous peoples is a fact, as is sophisticated militarization. These have been the most significant ingredients in the silent war.

For me, to celebrate the twelfth of October is the absolute expression of triumphism, occupation and presumptuousness, and I think that history will remember those that celebrate it.

In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.

Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

It is said that our indigenous ancestors, Mayas and Aztecs, made human sacrifices to their gods. It occurs to me to ask: How many humans have been sacrificed to the gods of Capital in the last five hundred years?

I would get up in the morning and I would say, "How am I going to bother them today?"