Intellectual Quarrel between Quechuaymara Fausto Reinaga and Fernando Diez de Medina

Abstract

The Bolivian quechuaymara Fausto Reinaga in his intellectual life held several debates and controversies. Maybe his quarrel with the writer Fernando Diez de Medina is the best known and disseminated. Reinaga wrote a book in 1964 under the title of Th e Indian and Bolivian cholaje. Processing Fernando Diez de Medina.  Our proposal is to show that his work is located in the stage of Marxist thought, although its content acquires “the voice and the Indian thought” against the Bolivian mestizo writer Diez de Medina.