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MARIO J. TORRES
4th of July
When middle-class landowners like
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson among others, heroically forgot their
social position and devoted their lives to free the 13 colonies of the
future great American nation from the British rule, they unwillingly
released an air of freedom towards the neighboring Spanish colonies in
America whose moment came decades later, when that influence met the
receptive ear of Simon Bolivar who finally make the dream come true in the
colonies of Spain in South America.
Within all this inspiration for independence, begun by the 13 colonies, only
one single country remained as the last Spanish stronghold in America and
this was the island of Cuba, that had to wait till the beginning of the XX
century to be freed with the already material help of Washington's and
Jefferson's descendants as more experienced and powerful neighbors by means
of the Cuban-Spanish-American War. But more than a century after these
events and as if sentenced by a strange spell or a rare coincidence of
historical punishment, the same country is again the last one still drowned
by another rule, this time not the Spanish one, but the Communist one; as if
history were repeated, who knows if due to serious unknown ancestral debts
of our race.
On a day like the 4th of July, Cubans long for a similar outcome like the
one that took place one hundred years ago and we now ask our lucky neighbor,
who, by the way, through these latest years of neo slavery, has been
indifferent to us, to lend us some of his democracy and desires of
independence and to enlighten us with the glorious spirit of courage and
vision of liberty that guided that country's patriots more than 2 centuries
ago already so that our people may wake up from hibernation and death in
life and they may return to be what they once were.
MARIO J TORRES
JULY 2004
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