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EVERYONE EQUAL AND DIFFERENT. Like every year, SACO included in its activities a special exercise for children and young people from the region, which this time invited them to reflect on the theme of the encounter: the relationship among the three bordering countries: Peru, Bolivia and Chile – a key issue for the northern area. The project Tres Pueblos (Three Pueblos) invited educational establishments to encourage their own students to carry out a game as simple as it is revealing: freely intervene three stamped human figures on a paper, characterising “the others” with drawings and colours. Months before the encounter started, more than 600 children, ages 11 to 5 had been congregated, who contributed, based on the ancestral and the contemporary, their own view regarding “the others”.

The works went a long way: from integrating figures with indigenous attire, such as Mapuche, Rapa Nui or Kaweshkar, to visualising the other based on nationality or as urban characters, including a “crazy gringo”, a “dancing Korean” or soccer players. “The others”, the other cultures or pueblos, could be in any territory near or far, inside or outside the borders.

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