Una mujer llamada Anayansi

Has world history been fair to women? Have they been given the significance they deserve? How often do we read that the champions of discovery and conquest have been men, never women? Through neglect or historic omission women have often, very often, remained in the background. Almost always in fact, except in a few special cases. Anayansi is one of these. She was an indigenous woman, a woman in love, who opened her heart to the blond conquistador with his steel armour, newly arrived to win glory in the Isthmus of Panama in the days when the indigenous peoples still worshipped their own gods and listened to them speak in thunder. Without meaning to or even knowing it, she changed the course of history.