Indigenist narrative, a conspiracy of the Sao Paulo Forum

By: Hugo Marcelo Balderrama - 23/12/2024

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"Spain imposed its religion by sword and blood" is one of the arguments often used by the greatest defenders of indigenism. However, although it may seem true, it is simply a fallacy, since historical research reflects the opposite: that it was the pre-Columbian American cultures that imposed their beliefs in a violent manner, even with human sacrifices.

In their book: Ancient History of Mexico, Fray Juan de Zumárraga and Francisco de Clavijero report that, exclusively in Mexico City, more than twenty thousand victims were sacrificed to the gods in 1531. For its part, Discovery Channel, in an investigation entitled: Temple of Blood, showed that Aztec priests could remove the heart of a human being in, read carefully, seventeen seconds.

Similarly, the Incas sacrificed children when they wanted to reverse bad weather conditions. The Capacocha ritual was performed at the foot of the most important snowy mountains. To do so, children were forced to walk long distances for several days, always accompanied by priests and emissaries of the Inca. Once in the mountains, the children were drugged with alcohol and cocaine until they fell into a deep sleep. Most died from the intense cold. However, there were also cases in which they were sacrificed with a blow to the head.

Given these macabre scenarios, doesn't it seem logical to you that many Native Americans preferred to follow a God who, instead of sacrificing them, sacrificed his own son, and that the only condition for being faithful to him was to love one's neighbor?

On the other hand, compare Catholic practices, for example: turning the other cheek, compassion for the weak and charity to the poor, versus permanent war, the rape of the women of the defeated and bloodbaths.

There are many more reasons to affirm that Spain empowered the American Indians. The natives of these lands were so happy that, en masse, they accepted baptism, even taking the surnames of their Spanish friends as a tribute to that friendship.

Within three generations, Native Americans were already priests, teachers, politicians and historians, and they were never treated badly, much less committed genocide. Furthermore, the sense of belonging to Spain was so strong that during the conspiracies against the crown that Simon Bolivar and others organized, wrongly called the Independence Trials, the natives fought in favor of the King.

So why do we still have the black legend about Spain so alive?

First, because this story has been inherited since the 1800s, which is the era in which our countries emerged. Second, because, with greater emphasis since 1990, it has served to give thugs, hitmen and criminals a bath of legitimacy while they conspired against the democracies of Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.

This kind of Indian Power, paraphrasing the Black Panthers, would be the perfect umbrella to cover up, justify and even forgive the murders committed by characters like Evo Morales and Felipe Quispe.

Regarding the latter, it must be remembered that in April 2000 he directed the cruel dismemberment of army captain Omar Tellez. A bloody act that the well-meaning European progressivism classified as: Indigenous resistance.

Worse, since 2009, indigenous groups have closed ties with terrorist structures financed by Iran. In this regard, José Brechner, the leading Bolivian expert on Islamic radicalism, explains:

Iran's affection for South America should not be fooled. Its real goal is the conversion of the indigenous populations to Islam. Its political and economic support is a disguise to impose its religious conviction, as it is doing in the city of El Alto, bordering La Paz, where it forces Bolivian nurses to wear Islamic attire (Jihab) in a tiny and mediocre hospital that it donated. Let us not be mistaken, Iran is an intolerant anti-Western theocracy. Its leaders plan to settle in Latin America to attack the United States, allied with the neo-communists.

In conclusion, no being with a certain degree of rationality falls into the indigenist narratives. Sadly, the militants of 21st Century Socialism are very far from rationality.

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