THE NEW WORSHIP: THE THRILL OF
Betancourt said the extraordinary Mexican historian Carlos Aguirre, the story that occurs today is deeply descriptive and uncritical impoverished, based on the exaltation of the hero. This exaltation in the history of Venezuela has traditionally had its epicenter Bolívar, however currently witnessing a new building-hero story. And that is explained by the fact that the approach advocated to Bolivar away from the exclusive use of the power elites and makes it a popular instrument of the counter, so Bolivar is no longer useful and should be replaced. The substitution has been raised through the analogy of a new hero, an instrument of order considered great: Rómulo Betancourt and representative democracy. Their activities and implementers are a group of university professors, high respect and consideration, but now joined an eminently ideological power that tends to boost democracy or a particular model to contrast with what is built.
not criticize it, criticize what is that doing so will countercurrent what they wrote in their academic career. We remember to read the defense of Betancourt who do, criticism that proposed in several of his texts to the cult of personality. One of those authors said in his Cult of Bolívar - a key work of the new Venezuelan historiography-that the hero had been an excuse to justify repression and domination. With Betancourt is exactly the same. By pretending to be submitted to Romulus as the father of democracy, it seeks to create an anthropological basis of submission, because the children "owe" obedience and respect for their parents. Yes Betancourt is the "father of democracy", we must all obey and accept their actions, even when wrong. When the Foundation Rómulo Betancourt starts a series of publications designed to enhance his figure, his role in Learners Week 1928, their Tracks written and claw, the Plan of Barranquilla, a wish to create - as did Bolivar predestined perspective of illustrious men and thereby erase the fact some of the inhuman repression ahead of the betrayal of the search of a better life in democracy, through a strategic partnership with big business. In short, Betancourt was a man and as such its mistakes are part of his life, but is intended to present him as a demi-god to whom we owe it to democracy and the road traveled is unknown conquest of claims made democracy possible in the twentieth century.
is undoubtedly raise and ignore the long road history that began from the late eighteenth century in the Captaincy General of Venezuela, to advance the recognition of citizenship, in his initial speech recognition access to public space, and later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the construction of social and political citizenship, understood the 1st as access to education, health, respect for ethnic differences.
The manipulation is obvious: democracy is the grace of Betancourt and the Pact of Punto Fijo - who turned 50 years so we must raise our voice and our pen to expose this strategy. Democracy is an achievement that leaves from the nineteenth century and that has to do 1st with the recognition of participation and self-government, and then enriched in the middle of the nineteenth century with the debate about the social and political rights incorporated in the constitution of 1864, one of the most liberal and which extends throughout the 1st half of the twentieth century, through an anti-positivist thought which held that the Venezuelans were not able to live in democracy, given our racial composition. It all adds up and is building the conditions of historical change, so our indignation when trying to build a new cult: the cult of Betancourt.
This new contemporary hero worship arises naturally as a counter response to Chavez's charismatic personality. There is no doubt that the Bolivarian process itself has its own symbolic references and the opposition has managed to minimize, so she will justify resort to Betancourt figure to contrast the idea and representation charismatic Chavez. However, it has the same similarities with the Cult of Bolívar and so forcefully pointed out that initiative. Today is to plant a new hero, when rather it is an antihero. Betancourt still has outstanding balance with its history and that should not be forgotten. The foundations of bureaucracy, patronage and cronyism that is so critical of this government, were seeded with Betancourt and institutionalized a way of doing politics that led to a progressive loss of democratic life. When the program is to exalt betancuriano as a solution to the crisis makes a historic outburst, since this program became repressions, distortions and setbacks to the democratic process, which still must be analyzed and discussed. The new history, the criticism that shuns the easy analysis builds on the comparative performance and intellectual engagement in her struggle, and in that we move, so as a counterpart to the story of heroes welcome the initiative of the National History Center (NHC ) to make a story of the people. Dr. John E.
Historian
Romero 14/12/2008
Juane1208@gmail.com
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