On Thursday 17 June was the date set for the monthly meeting of the Vision Group. This time the guest Ana Teresa Torres let us know more of what we had read with keen interest in his book THE INHERITANCE OF THE TRIBE - The Myth of Independence of the Bolivarian Revolution.
When the friend asked me did Nora Bustamante the presentation of that book, my first thought was that with the extensive work of the author compiled more than thirteen books published, their deserved awards such as the Municipal Prize for Fiction and winner of the National Council of Culture, for his work The exile of time, Mariano Picon Salas Award and the Pegasus Prize for Doña Inés against forgetting, as well as individual occupying seat of honor of the Academy of National Language, and his recent honorary doctorate awarded by the Universidad Catolica Cecilio Acosta of Zulia, was not going to be easy to compress into a few lines your resume. Besides that his contributions to the national press and magazines give us the enormous creative flow that the author lavishes, as long research conducted for us in each of his works this particular vision of meeting the individual and their history.
Regarding the comment book, opened to the participants a fruitful debate, tinged with the accurate word of the author. So we know that what led to the writing of THE INHERITANCE OF THE TRIBE, was television. She as any Venezuelan or resident in this country has seen, or rather suffered long chains presidential and look through them as the sole interlocutor speech has rescued, revived and cultivated the myth of independence, had thought be taken to the writing and analysis. Not that Chavez had invented, but it has strengthened and endorsed. The liberator has been brought to the sacred altars and his hero par excellence has been set. We are the sons of the Fatherland, the inheritors of these glorious and as such must comply with unfinished dreams of the Father. Let me copy here
expert opinion of the historian Elias Pino Iturrieta who says that (quote) "In the inheritance of the Tribe, Ana Teresa Torres is not writing a history book, but a reflection whose foundation is located in a historiographical support allows conclusions worthy of attention. Nor is it meant the description of recent texts of sociology, political science, psychology, social, artistic research and the chronic situation, but includes the bulk of their contributions to link what historians might think about the birth of the republic to the present analysis have not stopped moving opinion from a qualified field of receivers. "
There is no doubt that the allegations of the author, who openly declares that no historian, no psychologist or sociologist, nor a political scientist, are plagued by thoughts that amalgamate each of these specialties and we realize extensive work research and commitment to the reality of the country. Following
the meeting and the question of what was left of you in the history of the People?
His answer after a few minutes of meditation, accompanied by a gesture of despair guessed, was short and terse, but also determining
-lot ... a lot.
The nostalgia for all that we are losing the certainty that recover from years of neglect plagued by a political speech that each day we were away and the difference between the ones and others, the verbiage that surrounds us from the illusion and deception , all made the pose silence at times in each of the attendees. Fortunately
and to complete the success of our meeting, hospitality Pity our host and delicious Troconis suck with which he gave us, comforted us and gave courage to face the dark days still remain. The days to come when the tribe warrior caste kick back and break chains. Ana Teresa
Thanks for giving us such fascinating reading and give us the necessary starting point for reflection.