My grandfather Manuel Rojas, the last of the Ayamanes.

This text is the result of research of my aunt Magaly Hurtado, a journalist in Venezuela.

Manuel Antonio Rojas was born on January 6, 1901, in Siquisique, Urdaneta municipality, Ayaman territory. He was characterized as an honest, simple, hardworking, good friend and a better father. From the junction with Josefa Hurtado fathered five children. Benjamin, Angela Francisca (Elayle mother and grandmother of Bruno), Henry and Saul, who grew up and educated in a very humble and always with respect for family values ​​and simplicity .. The village was well respected and liked by his neighbors. He could not read or write, but used the four mathematical operations smoothly. Told a story using all the literary devices at the right moment, but did not know geometry produced excellent embroidery hoops, did not know about astronomy, but wise to recognize the Big Dipper, Little Bear, the constellation Orion and planted and harvested only guided only through the phases of the moon. He did not know of Marxism, but his village was a community partnership. All they had was shared, work tirelessly for family unity and friendship. His class consciousness and the rejection of the imperialists and sowed in his family. All life remembered what he told his great-grandparents and grandparents who were victims of the Spanish empire. The usurpation of the Spanish in this land, was the largest genocide in living memory on earth. At the time of independence, we have estimated the extermination of 300 million indigenous people. Christopher Columbus and his followers arrived in these lands to subdue, dominate, steal and destroy our native people. They were forced to speak Spanish, to accept the Catholic religion, they changed their indigenous names for Spanish names, etc.., In short, was a great fighter until the hour of departure happened in July 1978.