Author: Fernando Báez

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Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789708101165

A polemic work that reveals, in an interesting and moving way, how 60% of the historical memory of the Latin Americans disappeared since the XVI century until the globalization: the elimination of the Mayan and Aztec codexes, the extinction of more than a thousand languages, the religious wars against the idolatries, the annihilation of thousand-year-old indigenous and African cultures, the demolition of monuments and religious and political buildings, the robbery of thousands of archaeological sites and museums, the censorship and autos de fe the devastation against hundreds of tangible and untangible patrimonies, and others. Withou hiding his horror, Fernando Bez presents the cultural genocide caused by the European empires and the United States, in the intent of establishing a collective amnesia to so favor the hegemony of the Western, Christian civilization. This book proves that the pillage of the symbols was bound to enable a single thought line for the sake of facilitating the military and economic domain. Nowadays, this mutilated identity discloses inequalities and inequities, injustices and ancestral hates that can only be explained by the serious damages suffered by all the affected generations. Una polmica obra que relata en forma amena y conmovedora cmo desapareci el 60% de la memoria histrica de los latinoamericanos desde el siglo XVI hasta la globalizacin: la eliminacin de los cdices mayas y aztecas, la extincin de ms de mil idiomas, las guerras religiosas contras las idolatras, el exterminio de culturas indgenas y africanas milenarias, la demolicin de monumentos y edificios religiosos y polticos, la censura y autos de fe de las dictaduras del siglo XX, entre otros. Con horror, Fernando Bez presenta el genocidio cultural causado por los imperios europeos y por Estados Unidos en el intento de establecer una amnesia colectiva para favorecer de esta manera la hegemona de la civilizacin occidental y cristiana.