José Antonio de Areche’s letter titled “All Must Die” shows a first-hand account of the tensions between the people of Peru, the Incas, and the Spaniards, that have overtaken the Incas’ land and inflicted their laws and customs on them. The letter clearly illustrates the nation’s divide between two very different cultures, races, and ways of life, as well the need for change within their country. In the letter, José Antonio de Areche gives instructions on how to execute José G. Túpac Amaru, his wife, his two sons, his brother-in-law, and his uncle. Due to the fact that Túpac Amaru was the leader of, what is known as, the Great Revolution, as well as the fact that his followers also believed he was an Inca monarch, Antonio de Areche took lengthy measures to publicly disgrace him in an effort to crush any ideas of rebellion as well as scare his …show more content…
Antonio de Areche states in his letter that Tupac Amaru is to be executed by having each of his limbs tied to horses that would pull each appendage from his body, thus killing him. He also gives the order that each body part be sent to different areas of significance to the rebellion for all his followers to see that their great leader is in fact dead. Antonio de Arches also orders that all things related to the Incas be destroyed, such things as paintings, symbolic relics and objects, their clothing, and even forbids them from using their titles or refer to themselves as “Inca” as well as preventing them from having any form of ranking within the government. In the letter, Antonio even goes as far as to say “the Indians wear heathen clothes…[which] only serves to symbolize those worn by their Inca ancestors, reminding them of memories which serve no other end than to increase their hatred towards the dominant nation; not to mention that