Túpac Amaru II

Wow, I just realized something when I was walking through the plaza here in Cusco. No one else will probably find this interesting but today is the day that in 1781 Túpac Amaru II was executed right here in the plaza of Cusco after watching his family killed. He was the leader of an indigenous uprising in 1780 against the Spanish rule and abuses of indigenous people. It was unsuccessful, but he became the martyr and mythical figure in Peruvian struggle for independence and different indigenous rights movements. In 1984, a marxist-leninist group rose up in Peru and called themselves the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement and captured and held the Japanese embassy hostage in 1996. Also the rapper Tupac Shakur is named after him. Today there have been parades all day for a religious holiday that is coming up, but there was only a small gathering this morning of maybe 15 people talking about Tupac Amaru. I couldnt figure out why they were talking about him, but later I found a plaque in the plaza. Sorry to bore everyone with history but I thought it was interesting.