"AFTER 500 YEARS OF COLONIAL SILENCE AND 168 YEARS OF REPUBLICAN EXCLUSION, WE HAVE COME FOWARD TO TELL OUR TRUTH.  OURS HAS BEEN A HISTORY OF PERMANENT STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE, FOR MULTICULTURAL AND MULTIETHNIC DEMOCRACY.  TODAY WE ARE ENTERING THE AGE OF A NEW PACHAKUT'I, A FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE."   -Victor Hugo Cardenas