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Eduardo Galeano: "Independence in Latin America is a task to be done"


Eduardo Galeano Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano said in Montevideo that independence is still a job to do and criticized the bicentennial celebrations taking place this year in several countries of the .

During a conference issued Wednesday night in an auditorium in downtown Montevideo, Galeano focused their criticism on the constitutions of some countries, including yours.

constitutions were the clearest evidence that he won was a free trade. In Indeed, independence remains for us a task to be done.

explained that those constitutions of the early and mid-nineteenth century injustices and inequalities devoted always to the detriment of the poor, weak and helpless of the land.

In Uruguay's first constitution, which dates from 1830, "denied citizenship to women, illiterate and slaves, among others. Only one in ten Uruguayans had a right to be citizens of the new country. And 95 percent could not vote in first elections.

And so throughout the Americas, from north to south. All our nations were born lied. The who renounced independence fighting for her life had been played. And women, young people, Indians and blacks were not invited to the party. The constitution gave legal status to such mutilation.

Citing some of the texts of his book Mirrors and earlier, Galeano noted that Bolivia took 181 years to learn that a country of vast indigenous majority. The revelation came in 2006 when Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian, was able to devote president by landslide. And this year, Chile was informed that half the population are women and was president Michelle Bachelet.

During his lecture, organized by the public radio system of the Uruguayan State, in a cycle called the word celebrate, Galeano paid tribute to what he considered heroes of the story, but are not remembered, as the case of Solano Lopez, Paraguay , and Simon Rodriguez, Venezuela, just now claimed by the present governments.

also paid tribute to Haiti, the first truly independent country in Latin America and so severely punished for all these years. Never forgave him that a group of black slaves will have inflicted a brutal beating the mighty army of Napoleon, recalled the writer.

and reserved a special chapter of his dissertation to refer to national hero José Artigas (1764-1850) who attributed the first agrarian reform, a century before (Emiliano) Zapata and a half century before Abraham Lincoln. He lived fighting for independence was not an ambush on the poorest of America, said.

So many statues left over ... but missing are almost as many as left over, added the author of Open Veins of Latin America.

Quoting Simon Rodriguez remarked: We are independent but we are not free. This teacher warned Venezuelan be instructed not to educate. Teaching does someone know, but if education is getting someone to do. Who does not know anyone who is cheating and not have anyone to purchase. Galeano

urged to start thinking with their own heads, to feel with their own hearts and walk with their own legs as a way to move forward towards final independence, individual and collective. For a nation is nothing more than the sum of people, he said.

(With information from La Jornada, Mexico)

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