Clerk Susan Montaner. Colorado Party Secretary General Tacuarembó
Uruguayan This year we are celebrating the bicentenary of the Acts of 1811, which led to the independence of our country and the establishment of the foundations of the republican and democratic. Where respect the popular will has characterized our legal system from the Jura of the Constitution of July 18, 1830.
The events of 1811, which began with the famous Grito de Asencio, 28 February, Creole uprisings continued inside the country, the cry of freedom to the land claimed the right to self-government independent of colonial wills.
In all these facts, and that continued for nearly a decade of struggle, highlighted the presence and actions of José Artigas, flabby old colonial empire began to serve the Board's independence in May, and quickly became the most faithful representative of the aspirations of freedom of the ancient Oriental Banda Oriental del Uruguay.
Artigas at that time was 46 years old, belonged to an ancient family linked to the interior of Uruguay, his father and grandfather were prominent military and rural police, and he had carried out those functions as a wimp. Profound knowledge of rural and officer of the law, had gained considerable prestige in the campaign, especially effective as a fighter against the criminals who ravaged it.
immediately put to the service of the Meeting of May he was appointed Head of Militias in the Banda Oriental, which is to say the East Village in arms.
Artigas's action, commanding native forces on this side of the Uruguay River, which became the most genuine representative of the East, for its military actions and his skills as a statesman would be chosen as the preferred driver Orientals, to the chagrin of locals always central.
At the time of English America, all lived shocks of the processes of struggle for independence from English rule, and the Creole patriots in Mexico, Peru, the former New Granada (today Venezuela and Colombia) had no lucky on their side, their sacrifices seemed to be in vain in front of the old empire.
A fact, since these territories would give new life to the struggle for freedom and retemplaría the value of criollo continent was the patriot victory of May 18, 1811, the memorable victory at the Battle Artigas de las Piedras.
May 18, when they were three months of the Grito de Asencio, in the Stones, José Artigas native forces lead to a resounding victory against the English, the exclusive work of the East, whose impact will be critical for continental liberation movement.
was the site of Montevideo by the Eastern forces, but the central Buenos Aires wanted to control the situation, then, the Oriental people unhappy with the events met on October 10 José Gervasio Artigas proclaiming as head of the East (Assembly fifth of the Paraguayan). The Uruguayan people first began to express their will irrevocable.
Such was the strength of this manifestation of the will of the East Village, when the misunderstandings in Buenos Aires led to the withdrawal of Artigas Montevideo Site, in a totally spontaneous and uncontrollable emptied the eastern campaign, neighbors with their families in tow Mass emigration began after Artigas, whom we remember today as the Exodus of the East Village.
Eastern State was created and in Exodus, for self-determination of a people who stood up determined to withstand any kind of sacrifice rather than submit to a will that was not his own freely expressed.
Hence the importance of commemorating the events of 1811, as these fires Artigas already expressed the idiosyncrasies of our people, through almost two hundred years of independence has made respect the popular will of its creed fundamental.
be Jose Artigas, those who express it with clarity, to open the Congress of April "or" Las Tres Cruces "in his Inaugural Prayer" My authority comes from you and it stops your sovereign presence. You are in the full enjoyment of your rights: "that is a result of my anxieties and worries, and see there also all the reward of my toil. Now is you keep. "
This maximum ruler subject to the will of people is the foundation of our democracy, and we were born and we identify it, so it is very good to remember.
Today we sadly, as few majorities circumstantial, in the parliament intended to ignore the will of the people of the sovereign, ie the popular client and want to end up with a law, the revocation, which twice directly the people said to be maintained.
With surprise, we see that government legislators attempt to correct the sovereign decision of the people, forgetting that the legitimately can only change a popular choice is the people themselves. Ignoring that is ignoring the moral mandates Artigas left us, those who supported our freedom,
When meeting, as decided, the General Assembly (Senators and Representatives combined) on May 18 Las Piedras, to commemorate the events of 1811, best tribute to those patriots who gave us freedom, it would reaffirm the sovereign will lies in the nation! and therefore in the freely expressed will of the people.
's commitment not to amend the flat to the people is the best tribute to the patriots of 1811.
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