“We children have inherited an ancient culture which understands that everything is interrelated, that nothing is divided and nothing is outside.”

Jun 14

David Choquehuanca (dah-veed choke-ay-wahn-kah)

vice-president Bolivia

IMAGE SOURCE: “David Choquehuanca will be President for 62 hours.” Blog post. evolibre.com. 12 Dec. 2020. | TEXT SOURCE: “Bolivia’s new Vice President David Choquehuanca called the brotherhood to unity.” La Razón. Nov. 8, 2020.

QUOTE CONTEXT: “It is an obligation to get along, an obligation to dialogue. It is a principle of living well. As the peoples of ancient cultures, of the culture of life, we adhere to our origins stretching from the dawn of remote times…That is why they tell us that we all go together, that no one be left behind, that everyone has everything and no one lacks anything.”

QUOTE QUESTION: What do you understand from your ancient culture?

IMAGE CONTEXT: “The ‘vice’ was shown in a coordinating and mediating role in the campaign.”

IMAGE QUESTION: What are the colors that make you shine?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is a speech to the Bolivian government. The photo is from an online newspaper.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: How do the words of your People spread through media channels?

“We children have inherited an ancient culture which understands that everything is interrelated, that nothing is divided and nothing is outside.”

David Choquehuanca (dah-veed choke-ay-wahn-kah)

“Share the richness of the culture, of your community … concentrating your memory in that celebration.”

“Each individual has tremendous power to change his world. We are a microcosm of the universe itself so how we behave, how we take care of ourselves reflects in the earth.”