{"id":26628,"date":"2010-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/remember-the-past\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:34:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:34:44","slug":"remember-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/remember-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESTE A\u00d1O LOS COLOMBIANOS ELEGImos a un nuevo presidente y tambi\u00e9n celebramos los doscientos a\u00f1os de la Independencia.<\/p>\n<p>Ambos asuntos est\u00e1n, a mi juicio, \u00edntimamente ligados. La elecci\u00f3n de un presidente es una oportunidad para pensar en un proyecto de sociedad y ese proyecto resulta mejor si se hace teniendo presente el pasado. Alexis de Tocqueville, el gran pensador de la democracia en el siglo XIX, lo dijo mejor que yo: \u201cEn aquellas sociedades en donde el pasado no ilumina el futuro, el esp\u00edritu marcha en las tinieblas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>En los debates actuales para elegir presidente no s\u00f3lo deber\u00edamos abordar aquellos problemas coyunturales que nos agobian, como el narcotr\u00e1fico, la pobreza, la violencia y la corrupci\u00f3n, sino que deber\u00edamos tambi\u00e9n pensar en lo que hemos sido. M\u00e1s a\u00fan, me parece que parte de las dificultades que tenemos para superar esos problemas coyunturales provienen de nuestra incapacidad para entender qui\u00e9nes somos, de d\u00f3nde venimos, cu\u00e1les han sido nuestros proyectos de sociedad, cu\u00e1les nuestros logros y cu\u00e1les nuestras frustraciones.<\/p>\n<p>Una de las cosas que deber\u00edamos entender mejor, algo que podr\u00eda iluminar, como dice Tocqueville, nuestra marcha hacia el futuro, es esa tensi\u00f3n permanente que tenemos los colombianos \u2014y los latinoamericanos\u2014 entre lo que queremos ser y lo que somos. Me explico.<\/p>\n<p>Am\u00e9rica Latina fue el resultado de un choque cultural tremendo entre Espa\u00f1a y las civilizaciones ind\u00edgenas. Los espa\u00f1oles impusieron su visi\u00f3n del mundo a los ind\u00edgenas que sobrevivieron a sus armas, pero su poder nunca fue tan grande como para eliminar la manera como los indios y los negros ve\u00edan el mundo. En M\u00e9xico, por ejemplo, los espa\u00f1oles destruyeron las pir\u00e1mides aztecas y sobre sus restos construyeron iglesias imponentes, como queriendo aplastar el pasado, pero los carpinteros ind\u00edgenas, que tallaron las esculturas que adornaron esos templos reprodujeron, subrepticiamente, el aliento de sus antepasados. Esas miradas amalgamadas dieron lugar a una nueva f\u00e1brica de la vida social; a un mundo sincr\u00e9tico, tan ajeno y tan cercano de la Espa\u00f1a cristiana como del M\u00e9xico azteca.<\/p>\n<p>El resultado de ello fue una cultura que vive en un estado de tensi\u00f3n permanente entre lo que fue y lo que es; entre el \u201cdeber ser\u201d que impuso el colonizador y el \u201cser\u201d del colonizado vencido. Por eso, el primer rasgo de la mentalidad del colombiano \u2014y del latinoamericano\u2014 es la esquizofrenia, que es una forma de mentira o de incapacidad para resolver la tensi\u00f3n entre dos personalidades, la del futuro, la de los prop\u00f3sitos y de las buenas intenciones y la del pasado, la de la cruda realidad y de las frustraciones.<\/p>\n<p>De ah\u00ed viene esa facilidad con la que los colombianos toleramos la falta de sinton\u00eda entre reglas ideales de todo tipo \u2014c\u00f3digos, constituciones, proyectos sociales, empresas, religiones\u2014 y realidades que no tienen casi nada que ver con ellas. Ya lo dec\u00eda Bol\u00edvar en su Manifiesto de Cartagena: \u201cLos c\u00f3digos que consultaban nuestros magistrados, no eran los que pod\u00edan ense\u00f1arles la ciencia pr\u00e1ctica del gobierno, sino los que han formado ciertos buenos visionarios que, imagin\u00e1ndose rep\u00fablicas a\u00e9reas, han procurado alcanzar la perfecci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica, presuponiendo la perfectibilidad del linaje humano\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Reconocer el rasgo esquizofr\u00e9nico de nuestro ser social es el primer paso para superar ese estado mental. Quiz\u00e1 podr\u00edamos empezar a dar ese paso ahora, en estas elecciones, castigando con nuestro voto a los candidatos mentirosos, a los que hablan carreta, a los que prometen lo imposible y a los que simplemente no dicen nada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS YEAR US COLOMBIANS elect a new president and also celebrate two hundred years of our independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","medium-el-espectador-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Remember the past - Dejusticia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/tener-presente-el-pasado\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remember the past\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THIS YEAR US COLOMBIANS elect a new president and also celebrate two hundred years of our independence.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/tener-presente-el-pasado\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Dejusticia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-04-09T05:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-04-11T12:34:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"NewsArticle\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/tener-presente-el-pasado\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/tener-presente-el-pasado\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/d5933ad4c269c4b6c2acbf717ceeb0d6\"},\"headline\":\"Remember the past\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-09T05:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-11T12:34:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/tener-presente-el-pasado\/\"},\"wordCount\":626,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2010\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/tener-presente-el-pasado\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/tener-presente-el-pasado\/\",\"name\":\"Remember the past - 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