If we expose what we have been for centuries and decades What can we say about who we are, why we are a way rather than another or that some Latin Americans want us to be? Leaves no doubt in saying that we are forced to read for knowledge, information, and recognize in clear unknowns who made the last of our land, our geography, because we can not start from scratch and scream that Venezuela and Latin America were born whole nothing, no past.
can not love their countries who deny the past.
have to reiterate to the American and particularly to Venezuelans, that the indigenous uprisings in the north and south which is Venezuela, were frequent and intense in many places.
Dr. Gustavo Pereira, in his book Tales of Paradise (The harassment of insurgents) Book III, relates that the reading of the history of Fray Pedro de Aguado shows some passages that used to happen then. Pereira writes the poet (author, by the way, the preamble of the Bolivarian Constitution) that "so peaceful natives were kindly shown before the astonished eyes of Ojeda, Vespucci, de la Cosa and subsequent travelers, foreigners do not keep to the initial considerations. Comment
Pereira text Aguado, also other writings on the subject, does not stop at considerations of a moral or political "... on the nature of the invaders or the invaded legitimate right to defend their land and lives. This episode, with almost imperceptible sense of humor, but also with a trace of ironic contempt common at the time, "takes us back to those misadventures, this time staged by the German Ambrosio Alfing in 1529: The Indians of the lagoon (Maracaibo ) not much feared this entry Messer (old title of the Crown of Aragon) Ambrosio, and they themselves being very bold and warlike people in the water, and because prior to this entry through misfortune Messer Ambrosio had entered into this gap a English ship that was the bishop of Santa Marta Don Juan de Calatayud, whom the Indians broke up and have been concentrated in English blood. "
Little Lambs of God, Satan sheep
says the author of Stories of Paradise, "This bishop is said that when he went into this gap, the Indians seeing something so new and never seen them, the English are coming most simply, and some English they already knew that the Indian movement and the return usually have to give, to take advantage of them that while they lasted, so the bishop harshly rebuked the English and say, Let them not do them wrong, they are lambs of God, trying by all means do not receive any despondency (hardness of genius, rough in the treatment) of the English. "
"Dende (hence) a short time, continues the writer, the Indians own the road and came back armed with to thank the bishop for the benefit they had, and started shooting in English the flechería they had, and hurt them and mistreat them, and among those who initially injured the Indians went to the bishop, who seeing in this guise, began to encourage English with very loud voice, saying, them brothers, they that they are not God's sheep, but wolves of Satan.
"More than all that," writes one who has a doctorate in literary studies at the University of Paris where the Indians killed all the more English, and were also imposed after a new thing did not like the entry of Messer Ambrosio prior understanding that everyone had to die and be in possession of them showed friends, and then tried their events very safe against the English, in which sometimes leaving disaster and other setbacks, and although there were more wins and were on our English, did not stop them flechería fed up with damage that these Indians used, which is over most of the fish teeth from different lots. "
The leak makes opposition to slavery
Discuss this essayist born in the island of Margarita, Venezuela, that "Until the late eighteenth century chronicles record the indigenous uprising in Venezuela. At this stage of colonization, and cemented the power invader the most common means of opposing the drain easement is individually or collectively, but the armed rebellion has achieved resounding victories sometimes, though partial, as in the case of Gayon, who could never be bent completely. Still in 1969, two centuries after the start the conquest, the Indians of Paria resisted the oppression of trustees and brothers teaming up with pirates, privateers and French merchants in Martinique, St. Vincent, Guadeloupe and other islands .... "
reviewed the history of an era and one in Latin America. Reflect on imperial behavior, which are the same from 1500 to 2010 and the only visible difference find is the possession of current technology and its devastating nature, because the attitude of those who have believed owners of planet Earth, either at the time of the reign of Isabel the Catholic and other European kings and the current representatives of the old empires and new (ie Spain, England, France, Holland, Germany, USA and Israel), remains the same.
Empires, which are nothing more than an expression of power that mobilizes capital of nations, we always have been watching the American as his servants and that, despite the years, we have witnessed through TV and thanks to satellites of aggression against those who refuse to develop their designs. And faced with that reality, because there is no other today to reiterate the spirit that has characterized Latin Americans as human beings.
PEREIRA Gustavo
Editorial Foundation Dog and Frog
2007
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