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these heights is very It is difficult for the announcer at the service (for so many years) of the interests of Ricardo Salinas Pliego to surprise me. His stridency, his capacity for insults, the orchestration of slanderous campaigns and media lynchings, his blatant lies are almost daily occurrences. Yes, it is very difficult that he can still surprise me, but he did it again. I am not surprised by the deep ingratitude of the senator against who was her defender against the organs and management of Morena in 2018 and 2019 (her former friend of hers Ricardo Monreal Ávila); I am not surprised by her statements against feminism, because there is nothing new under the sun in them, nothing that she has not said before; I am not surprised that she lies about the reasons for her resignation from the Morena bench in May 2019, which is due to her complete political incompatibility with our principles and the repeated complaints by numerous militants (including myself) that we had pointed her out for the violations of the principles and programs that, in her ambition for a well-paid position of popular representation, she swore to defend in the Senate; I am not surprised by her obsessive attacks on doctors Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo and Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller. And when you think about it, it doesn’t surprise me that she openly confesses her admiration for the other character who gives this article its title, since such admiration is inherent to the most rancid and racist right, of which she is a part.
So, what surprises me about the interview published on December 8 by a Spanish newspaper close to the neo-imperial Iberosphere and its interests in Mexico? Perhaps the intellectual poverty of someone who is assumed to be a political and ideological referent (gulp) of the opposition? Let’s see what he said, or what the newspaper in question decided to publish: in His large house that is articulated around a square garden with impeccable grass where two Yorkshire puppies walk
. After exhibiting her encyclopedic ignorance in matters of political theory, she was questioned by her referents (textually: What are your political references?
). He responded by mentioning a Polish scientist, five Anglo-Saxons and two or three other characters (on whose work I don’t think he can take an exam). And he added the comment that went viral: I am very inspired by the life of Hernán Cortés, the spirit and the heart of Hernán Cortés
.
That is all? I would have loved to have been asked what inspires you about the captain from Extremadura… or perhaps they did ask him and the newspaper modestly omitted the answer? We do not know, then, why the senator is inspired by Cortés, but we do know that she tends to use history as a matter of course, judging from her particular vision of the present how little she knows of the past. Perhaps we could remind her that Tepuichco, baptized Isabel de Moctezuma, accused the person who inspires her of having repeatedly raped her, and that she did not know the daughter that resulted from that rape (we could infer in an anti-historical way that she would have aborted if she could); that she sexually enslaved other women (not just Marina or Malitzin); and that numerous indications point to him as the murderer of his wife, Catalina Suárez. And that is not justified with the over-the-top argument that he was a man of his time
, because in their time they were already crimes. In fact, he was tried for the murder of Catalina Suárez.
Do you know what was the inspiration for Cortés’ actions? In his second letter, riddled with mystifications (https://www.jornada.com.mx/2021/09/07/opinion/020a1pol), write Prayed
more than 50 times and slaves
or its variants, more than 20. And paragraphs like this abound: We found the people very careless… and they took many women and boys… and I stayed in this town for two days, believing that its lord would come to be a vassal of your majesty, and since he never came, when I left I made set fire to town
.
I don’t know if the senator is aware of the reasons why so many conservatives of yesterday and today inspire
in Hernán Cortés, but we, who have read them, could ask him in which inspire
her: do you think the Spanish
they came to release
Y civilize
the Mesoamericans, who lived in the Neolithic, and the nomads cavemen
? (although the neo-imperials and their criollo spokesmen draw a modest veil over the wars of extermination in the north). This argument is based on the belief in a single religion (and a single way of practicing it, like the senator) and a single model of historical development.
Or perhaps you believe that without Hernán Cortés Mexico would not exist? Some 40 years ago Edmundo O’Gorman refuted that obviousness: By that count, Jews should celebrate the Holocaust, because the universal consequence of that horror was the rise of the State of Israel.
(https://www.jornada.com.mx/2022/06/28/opinion/019a1pol). Or to paraphrase it, following Edward Said, the Palestinians should celebrate the Zionist occupation for the universal consequence of that horror was the rise of the Palestinian nation and consciousness
(https://www.jornada.com.mx/2015/01/27/opinion/016a1pol).
I back off: I’m not surprised.
