Fiesta de la Blancura
- At first it was the time of the Kingdom of Spain and we were all able to see what was behind the events organized on the occasion of the fifth centenary. What showed us as an intercultural meeting was the celebration of genocide, there were no real reflections or looks. Now, every day of voting, like ‘the feast of democracy’, that patriotic drunkenness of 1992 was called ‘the feast of Hispanidad’, and we (the different, the formats, the critics always) immediately smelled ourselves.
Then came Elkano's turn and that Oasia also needed its own myths (preferably universal, homologated) about the wave crest. Learning from that 92 utikan, the discourse, supposedly, adapted. The feat of Elkano had nothing to do with an imperialist project, but with the entrepreneurial spirit of the Basques. We were the best in the world by making boats, hitting the violent seas with the rudder. We have always been brave people, if not looking at our companies after five centuries, spreading the good news of the urbi et orbi technique.
However, with the coup d’état against Evo Morales, the facts have come as they were then. The white has flushed the Indian. Those who ask for democracy, insult, persecute, murder the other out of pure physical appearance. They've taken Wiphala out of public mast, they've entered the Bible in government headquarters. Without concealing, the hunting of Camacho and Mesa against the ugly, the ignorant, the poor is vengeful. Thirteen years have not been enough to end the racism of five hundred years.
One thing has become clear, without falling into goodness. The celebrations of Hispanidad, the apostles of Oasis, who in the cult of Europe suddenly use ‘democracy’, ‘universality’, ‘human rights’, have suddenly been shut down. The images have been saved, the words have been confused. Like then, Bolivia has been taken out of the world.
I hope that hypocrisy will be purified in this way.
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