Santa Clara del Cobre is one of the most amazing indigenous success stories but I think it would have been very different if the Spaniards hadn´t arrived.

If they hadn’t arrived, I think the indigenous people would have had a very different lifestyle. They would continue doing their art with copper, but maybe they wouldn’t have had much richness but just the enough to live.

If indigenous people had fought with the Spaniards, they all would have died as Spaniards had more modern arms and weapons.

If they hadn’t arrived, the local artisans wouldn’t have got the exclusive rights to make cazos. This would have been awful as in this way they had been able to succeed in business. They had been able, at the same time, to support their families with their honest work.