How, if any, did external factors outside of Guerrero play a role in the founding of the center?
I believe it was actually a Latin American movement. Resistance by indigenous people against this supposed meeting of two worlds. There was an understanding or declaration that it wasn’t a meeting of two worlds, more like an extermination of one world. The framework really was that indigenous people were appearing on the political scene, as actors of a change. They didn’t want any more colonization, extermination, violations of their rights, etc. They were asking for respect, for their dignity, and for their rights as people. It was a continent-wide consciousness of the struggle of indigenous people. In the Mexican context, there was the establishment of the National Council on Indigenous Resistance, and of course, in 1994, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. And in Tlapa, the Catholic Church founded an indigenous diocese within its local office. FPD: That seems quite important, what was the significance of this action by the Church? Really for the first time, there were priests that we
