Review. America and the Caribbean : at the crossroads of modernity and coloniality.

Reseña. América y el Caribe : en el cruce de la modernidad y la colonialidad.

At the beginning of 1781 Julián Apasa (Tupaj Katari 1750-1781) leads the most important indigenous Andean insurrection of the colonial period with his wife Bartolina Sisa. With an army of more than 40,000 indigenous people, he managed to put the city of La Paz in suspense, closing it twice in a total of 184 days (Thompson, 2014: 157). Ten years later, many kilometers to the north of the Andean city, Dutty Boukman the houngan (voodoo priest) on the plains of the north of the island of Haiti presides alongside Cécile Fatiman the religious rite where hundreds of slaves declare to fight tirelessly until Reach your freedom

1. Thompson, S. (2014). Esbozo de una historia de poder y de las transformaciones políticas en el altiplano aymara. En J. Gandarilla & R. Peralta, El Estado desde el horizonte histórico de nuestra América (pp. 153-193). México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.