Breve historia de México
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Breve historia de México (A Brief history of Mexico) is a work published in 1937 by the
Mexican culture
), in Breve historia de México he stresses the importance of the Spanish part of Mexican culture, including cultural, moral, spiritual and traditional values which gave origin of Mexico. It is one of the most important revisionist works of Mexican and Latin American history.
Description
The work expresses a
Black Legend to blame the Spaniards
for all the problems of Mexico, while the United States governments in collaboration with the British represented the real threat to Mexico and Spain and had a major influence in Mexican liberal governments.
"And the most serious moral damage that the new imperialists have done to us is to create the figure of
Anáhuac plateau, without any relation to the rest of the country." —José Vasconcelos[1]
In Brief History of Mexico, Vasconcelos, was a strong defender of Hispanist values and the Spanish legacy in Mexico and the
Mestizaje during the colonial period, and that post-independence liberal governments would use it as a political instrument, whose negation of Hispanidad
is justified by the valuation of the movements of independence, which in the light of indigenist historiography, should appear as a reconquest of national freedom.
Vasconcelos coined the term Poinsettism, originated in reference to
Miguel Hidalgo
, who had been influenced by "other people's ideas" inculcated by the enemies of Spain and Catholicism.
Vasconcelos praises the role of the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Simon Bolivar from the Gran Colombia. However, Alamán disagreed with the latter regarding the inclusion of United States
to such alliance and in relation of Masonic lodges and non-Catholics interests over the national and Catholic ones. On the Spanish-American alliance, Vasconcelos mentions that it would have been possible to counter any political interference by the United States and England in the continent.
The long-standing
Anglo-Spanish Wars in the Old World between Protestant Britons and Catholic Spaniards. He mentions that "it was Europe, the first stage of the deep conflict, it was defined there and we ultimately had to lose in the Americas."[3]
"The new Congress, dominated by minions of Poinsett, excited
Santa Anna, Miguel Lerdo de Tejada, formulated a disentailment's law of corporate assets. The law postulated the absurd principle, never put into practice in any civilized people, that private corporations could not own real estate. With this they were destroying private foundations, schools, universities, hospitals. None of this mattered to the fury of the Jacobean bombardment from New Orleans. The word corporations was used to disguise religious hatred, but with the certainty that almost all corporations were of an ecclesiastical nature. »José Vasconcelos [4]
On the
illiteracy
which was part of the Poinsett Plan to stop the progress of the nation.
He would continue stating that the United States will continue to act through special agents and ambassadors throughout the 20th century, whom he calls "Poinsettists," such as
Cristero rebellion and oil negotiation, whom Vasconcelos calls "the most effective Poinsett of the twentieth century"), to achieve his plans of creating divisions in the country, civil wars and the application of neoliberal reforms that would be responsible for bringing ruin to the economy of Mexico, moving away from the objectives of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. One of the other objectives that they had, he says, was the application of the agrarian reform, which considerably affected the Mexican countryside, making the country even more dependent on the United States. He also reproached for electoral fraud the election of 1929, of which he was an independent candidate, which led to the presidency of Pascual Ortiz Rubio, of the PNR
party.
See also
- Hispanidad
- Hispanismo
- La Raza Cósmica
- Indigenismo in Mexico
References
- ^ a b Vasconcelos José, 1937; 20
- ^ "Pequeña explicación sobre la palabra POINSETISMO".
- ^ Vizcaíno, Fernando (August 2013). "Repensando el nacionalismo en Vasconcelos" [Rethinking nationalism in Vasconcelos]. Argumentos (in Spanish). 26 (72): 193–216.
- ^ Vasconcelos José, 1937; 363
Bibliography
- Vasconcelos, José (1937), Brief history of Mexico, Mexico, p. 581, ISBN 9682449243)
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