THE OTROCIDIO
The Discovery: 12 October 1942, America discovered capitalism. Christopher Columbus, financed by the kings of Spain and the bankers of Genoa, brought the news to the islands of the Caribbean. In his diary of Discovery, the admiral wrote the word 139 times gold and 51 times the word God or Our Lord. He could not tire the eyes of so much loveliness in those beaches, and prophesized November 27: Will all Christendom business in them. And that was not wrong. Columbus believed that Haiti was Japan and Cuba was China, and believed that the people of China and Japan were Indians from India, but it was not wrong.
After five centuries of Christianity the whole business has been wiped out one third of the American forests, is very barren land that was fertile and more than half the population eats fried. The Indians, victims of the most gigantic theft of universal history, continue to suffer theft of the last remnants of their land, and are sentenced to a denial of their separate identity. They are still prohibits live in his own way, are still denied the right to be. At first, the looting and otrocidio were executed in the name of the God of heaven. Now they meet in the name of the god of Progress.
Yet in that identity prohibited and despised some keys gleam yet another possible America. America's blind racism, not see them.
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The Discovery: 12 October 1942, America discovered capitalism. Christopher Columbus, financed by the kings of Spain and the bankers of Genoa, brought the news to the islands of the Caribbean. In his diary of Discovery, the admiral wrote the word 139 times gold and 51 times the word God or Our Lord. He could not tire the eyes of so much loveliness in those beaches, and prophesized November 27: Will all Christendom business in them. And that was not wrong. Columbus believed that Haiti was Japan and Cuba was China, and believed that the people of China and Japan were Indians from India, but it was not wrong.
After five centuries of Christianity the whole business has been wiped out one third of the American forests, is very barren land that was fertile and more than half the population eats fried. The Indians, victims of the most gigantic theft of universal history, continue to suffer theft of the last remnants of their land, and are sentenced to a denial of their separate identity. They are still prohibits live in his own way, are still denied the right to be. At first, the looting and otrocidio were executed in the name of the God of heaven. Now they meet in the name of the god of Progress.
Yet in that identity prohibited and despised some keys gleam yet another possible America. America's blind racism, not see them.
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. Eduardo Galeano
(from "be like them and other items", 1 st ed., Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI Editores, 2010)
(from "be like them and other items", 1 st ed., Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI Editores, 2010)
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