Minutes before the telephone communication from President Maduro During the march held this Saturday in Caracas to commemorate the Day of Indigenous Resistance, Congressman Jorge Rodríguez showed the posters that are exhibited today in several cities in Spain, in which the brutal process of colonization of American lands is vindicated. and they are recognized as heroes.
Rodríguez criticized the posters that display the phrase “1492, neither genocidal nor slavers, they were heroes and saints,” and said that with this action the Spanish conservatives are “again attacking our honor, our pride, our full life.”
He commented that “before their arrival, more than 100 million people lived in these lands, having advanced cultures, advanced civilizations… in less than 50 years after their arrival, these ‘saints’ had exterminated 90% of the population of these lands.” “, which constitutes “the largest genocide that human history has ever known.”
He said that this affront is equivalent to “today in Germany they publish that Hitler was not a genocide, he was a saint. “They dare to celebrate such a crime.”
He dismantled the arguments that colonizers They brought us civilization and language, explaining that before their invasion in 1492, there were about 1,200 languages in these lands. “We speak Spanish, but we speak better than them. The best linguists, the best writer Gabriel García Márquez, the best poet Pablo Neruda,” Rodríguez said, comparing Latin American talent with that of Spain.
Before concluding, he again criticized the institution of the monarchy in Spain, which represents an anachronistic figure in today’s diverse world. “You have to be an idiot to continue believing that a person has the right to govern only by blood,” he reflected.
