The 12 of October

Today it is the day in which we must raise the head, to watch the eyes to which today they march past and to say to them, although already know it, that they do not have by qué to march past, because it they are making on million victims, children, old, women and men

They already sound the bells again in the bell towers of silence, and to point est in the average officials who with fusses and written verborrea ensalzarén the 12 of October like national date, just as long ago. In the sky they fly airplanes by the blue sky as recalling the trip, by the seas no longer cruzarén boats in the open sea. They are going it to do with rejoicing like wanting to remember what their ancestors, who have been, did in the new continent. The boots of the soldiers march past as lead puppets without anything in the head; good, yes, many have berets, is the Ejé rcito that marches past by the streets of the Spanish capital. They do not take lance, but it is the same. No longer they are empire, but they want it to seem.

They already sound again the boots, epaulets and collars are seen… The celebration of the “discovery of Amé rich” it is his national celebration, ¡ it arrives Spain! , gritarén the month fervent. That celebrates they, and they call the Day to him of the Spanishness. And the month raised they go out to applaud. They take to its children, yes, to its children, and they teach to them, the honest families, the tanks that happen them in front of. Tanks of ejé rcito of peace. Yes, of peace. Incredible how it changes to the language and the use of the death. To who gets dressed green olive and has a gun in his hand, leads a tank or pilots airplanes military, yes, today military, they call “member to him of ejé rcito of peace”. If Gandhi raised the head, she would not believe it, and nobody would follow to him in the way by La Paz.

And in the scene prepared for the occasion, people dressed in black suits like demand the moment. Now, which not sé it is if the black is in full dress or is that they are in mourning because their ancestors, who have been, massacreed to million Indians in ¡ new discovered world! There they are the authorities of the Government next to its real height, yes, so that across of the pool they know it, ¡ tambié n are kings! Majestys with their majestic dresses contemplate to the subjects who march past hacié ndoles the reverences of the moment, like its ancestors, enalteciendo its Spanishness the 12 of October. It is his day, they say, and the boots are heard that strike to military step the streets asphalted by migrantes originating in their majority of the “Indians”.

And the other side of the pool million of Latin American they continue remembering the ignominy, etnocidio, the massacres committed against its ancestors. Million of Latin American remember that the encounter of cultures was a lie; of encounter nothing. It was a collision, those that arrived from this side of the pool in search of gold were twigs from an empire to which it corroded the avarice to him and its God was used for such necessities. And they imposed its religion, its language, its culture. But before doing it they denigrated to the other human beings, who stop they were animals. They were worth de la Cruz and the sword, so that those that allé lived put under, because if they did not do it they put under them, destroyed towns, massacreed whole populations, young, women, old… until obtaining with the fear the giving up of those people. Who arrived they said that those that lived there they did not have soul, thus justified the human sacrifice that ofrendaron to the God of recié n arrived. They made against the indigenous population all type of vejémenes, and that does not teach it to their children in the school.

What it has arrived to the present time on how they were those cultures we know it because the one wrote that put under. They wrote up their misdeeds, but they have not said all the truth. It wrote it who it assassinated, and if he were not é l, did it writes that they took alongside, and described from the point of view of the assassin which saw there. And it writes did not see badness in the invaders, saw kindness. And where there was resistance saw badness. Where there was culture saw averno. Where there was science saw demon. And thus it consists in writings. Nevertheless, little we know how it was the culture on which they lived there, because history is no counted they. There are it counted - and they continue it counting who they assassinated and they massacreed to million human beings born in those earth. Then, qué to celebrate the 12 of October? Nothing.

In any case, we will celebrate in silence, the memory infame of the death of million our ancestors who lived in our continent, which they gave in calling Amé rich. And today it is the day in which we must raise the head, to watch the eyes to which today they march past and to say to them, although already know it, that they do not have by qué to march past, because if it they make are doing it on million victims, children, old, women and men. Mayan, Aztec, Incas, Aymarans, quechuas, guaraníes and a length etcé tera. And, in case outside little, tambié n we have in our memories to guanches and African million of that took to the “new continent” like slaves, despué s of which they had extinguished to almost the totality of the cultures, nations and towns of the continent with mistaken name. 12 of October, Day of the Spanishness? Cuél?

LQSomos. Txamba Payé s. October of 2008