Marvin Aguilar
21/03/24
First of all, modern-day El Salvador did not only comprise the Nahuat-Pipil nation. In that sense, saying that the entire national territory was called “Cushcatán” is, at the very least, uneducated and ignorant of our history. Most.
The Lencas, the other Salvadoran nation, shared territory with Honduras and Nicaragua and one thing is what the Nahua called the ultra lempinos: Chontales, another is what the Spanish baptized them: Lencas and a very different thing is what they called themselves: Chapanastiques. And what may seem like writing about nothing is, on the contrary, an obvious existential need: I am three in one. I am what I am; I am what people think I am; I am who my DUI or the State says I should be.
Writing about Macondo, Springfield or Cushcatán then becomes a categorical imperative if you are gypsy, Hindu or mestizo, whether indigenous-Afro or Salvadoran hybrid. Everyone writes about their garbage dumps.
Just knowing that there are people at this stage of technological development and digital culture who believe that Atlacatl, Atonal or Huistaluxitl existed (the latter being the least known and that if you have never heard of it it shows a low level of knowledge) and that statues are erected and they even perform rituals officials in front of them, is an unavoidable sign that we must continue writing to the parish about national history, Salvadoran philosophy, national reality, political analysis and geopolitics to “unstupidize” a good number of compatriots inside and outside about how important it is to bet better to real and factual knowledge that to superstition or magical-religious cults that, although they can help tourism and are a very beloved part of our folklore, do not mean and have never meant to mean that they should guide us when thinking or deciding public policies.
My critics will say: in a territory whose failures and personal frustrations we channel by going to another country, with soccer or dying from despair in alcoholism, addiction to other drugs and suicide, writing is a useless task if we take into account that the school average is seventh. degree. I answer them: always if there is a stupid-writer, he will find another (s) stupider (s) who admire him, read me and even imitate him.
Thus, it is not something trivial to write about that biological entity called Salvadoran to understand ourselves-understand it as the world understands that human-cultural-construct-citizen-fans resulting mostly (85%) from the mixture between indigenous and Afro-descendants, all slaves, always slaves by the grace of God.
We must never forget that when Antonio Gutiérrez y Ulloa in his General State of the Province of San Salvador of 1807 wrote that the population was composed mainly of mestizos (54%) and 43% of indigenous people, mestizo does not mean Indian with Spanish but rather means black with indian. And that consolation of I don’t look Indian so I’m Spanish does not apply in the Salvadoran case since if you don’t look Indian that means you are both: black and indigenous or a traitor to your origins. There is no Spanish blood from the colonial era in today’s El Salvador.
II
I don’t think we are going towards a dictatorship. We are moving towards a totalitarianism that can become more violent in terms of the levels of individual protest observed to prevent the particular from becoming general.
It is seen with the issue of crypto assets. It seems more like an economic policy is a question of faith, of religion, of crypto evangelism. Only the happy ending is possible, since to reach the promised land we must spend 40 years wandering in a desert. Or also wait for 2 thousand years for the second coming of Jesus to arrive. (choose the one you like the most).
And having good health in international reserves thanks to the strength of bitcoin is not entirely bad and does not differ from past ideas of other governments. The Melendez-Quiñonez dynasty already promised to turn us into Belgium at the beginning of the 20th century if we let them manage the country for 17 years. Or Central American Japan after 12 years with the industrialization of Oscar Osorio. Social equality with statism promoted in the decade lost by the Christian Democratic Government Juntas in the 80s. Likewise the promise that dollarizing would make us the Hong Kong of the region in 10 years thanks to Francisco Flores. All failed promises. They failed because in addition to only having the conviction of those who promoted them from the government, which in weak states is not enough, they lacked a democratic basis and government transparency in the exercise of managing public affairs. All the promises of progress in 100 years sinned from mercantilism and monopoly in favor of the groups of, and, close to power.
It is biased, it does not help to get out of the endemic economic crisis that we are experiencing to criticize when bitcoin loses value. But it is no less perverse to redirect loans to reactivate MYPES to boost bitcoin. Promise investment, jobs, mining and financial integration, a city without giving time frames for such achievements.
The space-time unit is indissoluble for human beings. We need to have but the security, the hope of where the economic boom of bitcoin will happen and when it will arrive. Thus Nikita Khrushchev promised the Soviets that by the year 2000 everyone would have their own home. The bad thing was that by that year the USSR no longer existed. Javier Milei still talks about making Argentina a world power again, if he uses his chainsaw, in 40 years. Throwing the ball forward, far forward, helps the disappointment – which always comes – to take a long time to arrive.
General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, aware of the bad things he had done and aware of all the good things he did to hide the bad, declared: “I do not believe in history” and the problem of giving dates and places is that history takes care of it. to put everything and everyone in their place. That is why, to evade historical judgment, politicians never say when they only promise. They know that an uneducated, ignorant and illiterate people will always forgive that and more.