In the interview, Diego Falconí Trávez reflects about the processes of memory erasure. He highlights Enrique Dussel’s concept of the first modernity, which signifies the period and time in which imperial Spain began articulating euro-centric and universal notions of History. After eight centuries of Mozarabic power in the Southern part of the Iberian Peninsula, the last years of the 15th century were marked by Castile’s claims over the territory. This is also the period of the conquest of Abya Yala, which was later named as the Americas by the Europeans.
