¿Por qué el sur peruano piensa distinto? La respuesta es brutal

Why doesn’t Peru understand the Andean South? In this episode, I speak with Víctor Mazzi, philosopher, specialist in Quechua thought, and professor at La Cantuta University, to dismantle a dangerous myth: the idea that there is only one valid way to understand the country. This conversation reveals what is almost never said: Inca philosophy, the intellectual diversity of the Andean South, and Quechua as a way of understanding the world were reduced, simplified, or distorted by centuries of centralism and colonial readings. And that reduction still shapes how Peru thinks today. In this episode, you will discover: How the Incas actually thought, and what remains of that tradition in contemporary Peru. Why Andean thought is not homogeneous or “folkloric,” but a complex philosophical system. What gets lost when Quechua is treated only as a language and not as a structure of meaning. How the distance between Lima and the Andean South was constructed, and why it persists. What it really means to “decolonize” the way we interpret Peru without falling into clichés or exoticism.