Carlos J. Sanchez Sanchez, M.D.

Why is it that one feels sad for the Indians of the Andes or for that matter, for all the original inhabitants of the continent? It is not their poverty; it is not their lack of possessions? It has something to do with their spirit, their soul. It seems as if a great war was lost forever, as though their vanquished spirit has never been able to recover from being conquered and subjugated by the Europeans so long ago. Even I, as one of them, feel that faraway defeatism. As I say in this book, no matter how rich, happy or on top of the world I am, I will always have that longing to return again to the depths of desperation, to the valleys of suffering, even a desire to go down the tortuous, dusty stony pathways of the past so as not to forget how treacherous was the climb to the top.

- from The Soul of The Condor, A Forgotten Holocaust.

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