as plato might ponder on the nature of knowledge, let us initiate again our discourse on south america, a land where the predisjunctive notions of time and morality seem to converge upon the ancient and the modern. in this proposition, i invite the reader to evince disinterest in the mundane, urging instead a deep dive into the undivulged secrets that history and culture guard so jealously, secrets that, once revealed, could manipulate the course of nations and the essence of what we consider truth.