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Today I bring to my blog an article by Carlos Franz, published in El Pais, which clearly expresses the position of those who are citizens, and as the author, we rebel against all forms of nationalism coat.
The independence, sovereignty "and gurus of identity etnolingüista en España debieran ir a mirar el triunfo de las ideas nacionalistas en América Latina. Verían la pesadilla en que revierten sus sueños.
Entre las sinrazones del atraso latinoamericano figura, muy arriba, el nacionalismo. Para dar ejemplos no tenemos que remontarnos a las anarquías centrífugas que siguieron a nuestras independencias. En 1980, en lo peor de la dictadura, cientos de miles de chilenos se congregaban en la Alameda de Santiago a "reparar el orgullo nacional" porque Pinochet tuvo que volverse desde Filipinas cuando su colega, el dictador Marcos, lo desinvitó en pleno vuelo. En abril de 1982, cerca de un millón de argentinos celebraban en la avenida de May the same dictatorship that had for years been torturing and ruining his country. Unreason: the "national honor" recovered with the ill-fated raid on the Falklands. In 2003, the national-indigenous Bolivians, led by Evo Morales, managed to keep the gas underground that could be sold to California so that the pipeline does not pass through Chile. The gas in the ground and people in poverty. Nationalism is not subject to reason alone, it can also more than hunger. The Mexican Constitution establishes oil nationalism, as the country goes like suicide to the depletion of its reserves. Recognize those who visit Cuba, if fair, that after half a century of oppressive dictatorship preserved communist support. The U.S. blockade stupid justify an endless war rhetoric, and thus, the leader in power. Nationalism is the source of eternal youth to Fidel. That vice nationalist communist and fascist joins evidenced by the enthusiastic support that Castro offered the Argentina military junta in that adventure in the Falklands.
Many Latin Americans living abroad, we have updated the repulsion by nationalism to check global irrelevance of our twenty-odd nations united. Claim attention for one of them is the task of Sisyphus ... With an aggravating factor: the stone so hard that we raise and we fall, it's just a marble. If you tired of lifting launched our pebble against foreign indifference, this does not make more waves than a pebble in a pond.
seems incredible that, given the evidence clear and close, the chiefs of peripheral nationalisms in Spain, aspire to the same irrelevance. Our native breeds in the former colonies, remained caught in their local clientele fantasizing new nationalism to replace the English. They succeeded, giving us a continent of opportunities lost. Today in Spain, we see regional leaders in painstaking feat of returning to the Taifa Kingdoms. And thus diminish the unity of a state that even with the present size, has problems to influence in a globalized world. Meanwhile, destroy their land and costs, allegedly revered, with an urban wilderness.
penultimate ETA broke its truce in 2006, killing two Ecuadorians. There was an absurd paradox in these tragic events. Violent nationalists, in their quest to invent a small state, killed two migrants escaped from the failures of a small nation. A country, like others in Latin America, saddened by nationalists sure love their country is to hate its three neighbors.
A lack of major religious, linguistic or ethnic diversity invented our chiefs Creole soul, essential, lyrics. Justifying the political geography that befitted their interests, they created fictitious borders soon were legal. A good history of our literature should leave by this fantastic narrative is the Latin American constitutionalism.
A similar literary talent flourishes in the English autonomous statutes changeable. Leo preambles that suggest ancient essences, wavering between mysticism and folklore. Legal lyricism, more than cheesy, always suspect. And power vacuums in the opportunistic campaigns in trade ideas gaps traffickers basic instincts. Nostalgic
Latin American literary boom, six years ago when I moved to Spain I settle in Barcelona. Helped disabuse an official. What offended that amazed me know that my little girl would only have about three hours of Castilian, at school. Is not there an alternative mixed softer, for a little girl who spoke a hodgepodge of Chilean and English?, I dared to ask. "Find yourself a private school," he said. I would have been easier to enroll in English in Florida, USA.
Latin Americans know enough of arbitrary laws to smell a distance. No wonder Barcelona is no longer the literary capital of America once was.
The dream of Creole nationalism begat the monster of our disappointments. Backwardness, warlordism, hatred and selfishness neighborhood, wars or latent senses, many local party, and no global weight. Unhappy proud nations and peoples. A sensitive Latin American has good reason to detest nationalism. And to fret when they see it thrive again in Spain. Nationalists go and see.
Published in THE COUNTRY.
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