PACO YUNQUE STILL LIVES BETWEEN US

the need for intercultural educational policies for emancipation of the hidden people

Abstract

In 1931, the Peruvian poet César Vallejo wrote the children's story “Paco Yunque” in which he denounced the Peruvian class and racist society that discriminated against the indigenous people. This situation is still very present not only in Peru, but throughout Latin America, despite the existence of constitutions instituting democratic states, which proclaim equality and freedom for all. This mismatch between norm and reality reveals how the encryption of law is used to maintain the hierarchical structure of our societies. In this context, the present study aimed to demonstrate the need to implement intercultural educational policies, as a way to emancipate the hidden indigenous people and recover their quality of political subject, in the terms proposed by Sanín Restrepo. To this end, bibliographic research was carried out on national and comparative doctrine, whose analysis was in line with the epistemological assumptions defended by the new Latin American constitutionalism. Finally, it was concluded that there is a need, first, to discuss and reformulate the epistemological bases of Latin American constitutionalism in order to later propose intercultural educational public policies, in order to reverse the unfair situation of discrimination that, in the 21st century, millions of Latin American Indians still face