Los conquistadores

It was no secret that Parra sympathized with the political left and maintained close ties with members of Chile's Communist and Socialist parties. She supported Salvador Allende’s attempts to become president long before he was finally elected. She scorned the rich, referring to them in the local slang as pitucos, and held the army and the church responsible for Chile’s social and economic inequality. In this tapestry, Parra’s conquistadores are not the Spaniards who came to Chile in the 16th century, but the military man, the landowner and the priest who punish those who take, not out of greed, but out of need.
—Félix Angel, Curator, IDB Cultural Center