"The colonialists’ need to preserve the basic Indian economic and social
organization order to facilitate the exploitation of a rural labor force, is one of the
factors which explains why the Indian culture, revolving around precapitalist agriculture
based on maize and the corresponding level of social organization, survive in the new
colonial society; but it also explains why this culture not develop. The culture imposed
by the Spanish colonialists (western, greco-latin, judeo-christian) dominated the
Maya-Quicbe culture, because it expressed a mode of production superior to that of the
Mesoamerican Indians.