These little girls pose for pictures with tourists, but they let me hold the baby, who wanted to lick the sunblock on my face.
The design on the skirts they are wearing is hand embroidery. We saw women wearing these around Cuzco.
Behind us is the central plaza (la Plaza de Armas) of Cuzco where Tupac Amaru, the last Inca (the people are Quechua, the king is the Inca) was beheaded by the Spaniards in 1572.
We watched a parade that day and saw something interesting. When the "crowd control police" tried to make someone stop distributing election leaflets, it was indigenous women in who shouted at them that it was their right to have freedom of speech. I predict that it is the women of Latin America who will force change in education, health, and economic issues. In spite of all that foreigners say about "machismo", they misunderstand, from their foreign point of view, who really has most influence in Latin America
