I am not an enemy of private property, nor an admirer of community property. But both of these practices must be combined, because to be human is to be both an individual and part of a community. We have to strike a balance between the individual and the collective. Still another element is the relative status of men and women. In our view, a human is whole only as a part of a pair.
Man is one half, the woman is the other.
I love this as a vision, but in reality, the woman occupies a second place in our culture. The tradition is good, but we must do a better job of putting it in practice. I believe that peoples are like trees. The trunk, branches and flowers of a tree cannot grow on the roots of another tree. In Bolivia we have tried to graft our way of life on foreign roots.