Juan Wallparrimachi

Juan Wallparrimachi was born in Macha, north of Potosí, in 1793, to an Indian mother from Cuzco. Orphaned very young, he was raised by Indians, then taken in by the guerrilla leader Manuel Ascencio Padilla, who taught him to read, and fought with him and with Juana Azurduy against the royal troops, sling in hand. The Quechua version of the Castelli proclamation, in 1811, is attributed to him. He died in the battle of Las Carretas, near Chuquisaca, in August 1814. One critic sees in him a mythical figure as much as an individual.

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• PoetryKacharpariJuan Wallparrimachi · 1891not translated into EnglishLiterature