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Yvon Le Bot

La Grande révolte indienne

• Yvon Le Bot
  Paris, Editions Robert Laffont, avril 2009
  
  
  
  
  
  The Big Indian revolt
  " The Indians, who are at the centre of this book, are not the harbingers of a backward-looking, ecological or new age utopia. They are endeavoring to be actors or subjects in a world which is also ours, subject to the ebb and flow of the market, information and migrations, characterized by globalization and the crisis. They demonstrate that the rising importance of questions of culture, identity and religion does not necessarily imply new forms of violence. The emergence of the Indians, a major phenomenon in recent decades in Latin America, has taken place by peaceful means and has transformed the image of a continent which is still over-frequently identified with dictatorships and revolutionary guerillas. It is the expression of a demand for democracy which goes well beyond a mere change in political regime, and whose origins lie in a rejection of the racism inherited from the Conquest and the Colonial era.
  In the northern hemisphere, Martin Luther King's struggle for civil rights has recently been unexpectedly extended with the election of Barack Obama. South of the Rio Grande, the long march of the Indians, discreet and fragmented, is revealed in occasional glimpses of figures such as Rigoberta Menchu, the Zapatists, Evo Morales … But it is constituted by a multitude of actors, often women, who, by fighting for their emancipation, contribute to producing a multicultural planet, in which the hegemony of white people no longer goes without saying".

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