Julio Maria Sanguinetti
Journalist. Advocate. President of the Republic . Senator.
some time in the country witnessed a flowering of initiatives to the exaltation of the tribe charrúa. We inherited this primitive people a word of his poor language, or the name of a town or region, or even a memory benevolent of our elders, English, Creole, Jesuits or military, who invariably describe them as enemies, in a clash that lasted more than two centuries, and they faced the English-Creole society sacrificially families trying to settle and modes of production, join Western civilization to which we belong.
His legend walked into the collective imagination, at a time when the assertion of national identity demanded of mythology. Today, nearly two centuries of independent existence, it seems the time has come that history than myth, but unfortunately, like so many other things, we have been devolving.
The charruismo, as Oscar Padrón Favre said, is based on substantial concealment, as the missionary of the Guaraní people, that another key in building our society, from the walls of Montevideo, for she lifted up training of our army, from the place names of the country until his presence in the work of work of those people who shaped our native people.
It even ridiculous to explain to foreigners that the word "Uruguay", as well as all of our geography, not from the idealized charrúas but the Guarani language. Forget also "Perhaps most important in light of the debate, which in our republican life no one wanted to eliminate the charrúas as individuals but sweep your ranch, lifestyle incompatible with life Creole shelter criminals, steady ally of the Portuguese invaders" bandeirante "slave trader who tried to kidnap people there Guarani children or white women and sell them in Brazil.
were countless episodes of the long conflict in the colonial era. Remember the Yi, in 1702, perhaps the greatest, where the Guaraní army, commanded by Jesuit priests, killed-in the version-to 500 warriors, destroyed a ranch and sent to "Christian" women and girls. Later, after a period of attacks and lulls, in 1749, before the news of a conspiracy, the Governor of Buenos Aires, Jose de Andonaegui, came out a campaign that ended with most of that population, which basically installed their tolderías in Entre Rios since the founding of Santa Fe (1573) and the appearance of livestock. The Jesuits made repeated attempts to civilize those who survived, but without success. So the issue of confrontation with the Charruas is a "clash of civilizations" that can not be reduced to a mere final battle in Salsipuedes, when left on our territory a few hundred.
is true that in the revolutionary period was charrúas who joined the revolution Artigas, as is also true that on other occasions when it suited them, they joined with their old allies Portuguese. Indeed, to fight was that it had created, in 1797 the body of Blandengues Frontier mustered of Montevideo where our hero, Don José, the grandson of Don Juan Martin Artigas, who had been honored with honors after a successful battle with them. Do not forget that when the Brazilian domination, Rivera Lecor proposed a plan to reduce the Charruas, trying to preserve their lives. And, already installed Lavalleja provisional government on 24 February 1830, he gave the order to attack Rivera, to not let "these wicked to their natural inclinations and not knowing that contains any restraint." Organized Republic, it fell to Rivera fought in 1831 the much-discussed campaign, adopted unanimously by Parliament, without a voice against it, given the clamor in the neighborhood of the campaign.
so little "genocide" was the clash of Salsipuedes, who died, as supposed, about 40 charrúas and 300 were taken prisoner and sent to Montevideo. And those who survived organized killed shortly later, Bernabe Rivera, paramount figure of patriotic army and nephew of President. Without forgetting that the national army had in its ranks a thickness of soldiers Guarani rivals the Charruas.
So Salsipuedes was simply a clash of goals. Final shock, yes, to the ranch, way of life that was doomed from the first day English civilization took root in our land.
is painful for the country that used the story of an abusive manner, mainly to insult General Rivera, whom the country owes the greatest efforts in the struggle for independence. As written by Lincoln Maiztegui, Salsipuedes it fell to Rivera, as would have accrued to Lavalleja Garzón Oribe or if they were in Presidency at that time.
That look with respect to the Uruguayan people is the right thing. Glorify him almost as the origin of our society is something worse than a resounding historical mistake. It is an outdated definition of a reactionary romantic nationalism, which places the country in the most primitive look of the past, attaching it to violence and hatred by the blood they shed their civilization founding process and not to the magnificent efforts of so many patriots to consolidate peace and open paths of progress.
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