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A handful Kirchner Argentine intellectuals, linked to the group Open Letter, headed by the director of the National Library Horacio Gonzalez, asked the organizers of the Book Fair in Buenos Aires, which will open on 20 April, I withdraw the invitation to speak the day of his inauguration. The reason for the veto: my political position "liberal", "reactionary" enemies of the "progressive currents of the Argentine people" and my criticism of the governments of Nestor and Cristina Kirchner. Far more enlightened and democratic intellectuals, President Cristina Fernandez was quick to remind that such a demonstration of intolerance and in favor of censorship did not seem a good presentation of his government or when it seems appropriate to start a movement for re-election. Obedient, but certainly not convinced, Kirchner intellectuals turned back.
something I am happy to agree with President Cristina Fernandez, whose populist policies and statements have indeed criticized, but never find the tort, as argued by one of the supporters of my sacking. I have never concealed my conviction that Peronism, although some progress has promoted social and trade union, made the addition and subtraction has contributed decisively to the economic and cultural decline only country Latin America became a first world country at some point and have an educational system that was an example to the rest of the planet. This does not mean, of course, to encourage any sympathy for their horrendous crimes whose military dictatorships, censorship and human rights violations have always criticized the most energy on behalf of the culture of freedom that I defend and that is constitutively allergic all forms of authoritarianism.
precisely the only time I've suffered a veto or censorship in Argentina like me calling for intellectuals Kirchner was during the dictatorship of General Videla, which Interior Minister Harguindey General, issued a decree banning my novel bulky recitals Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and showing that it was offensive to "being an Argentine." I note with surprise that intellectuals that general kirchneristas share some notion of culture, politics and the debate of ideas that is based on an essentialist nationalism somewhat primitive and flight standards.
For what seems to offend mainly Horacio González, José Pablo Feinmann, Aurelio Narvaja, Vicente Battista and other supporters of the veto, over my liberalism is that, being a foreigner, I meddle in Argentine affairs. So it seemed more just to open Book Fair of Buenos Aires, an Argentine writer in line with the "ordinary people."
If this mentality had prevailed in Argentina, General José de San Martín and his soldiers of the Liberation Army would not have gone to meddle in the affairs of Chile and Peru and, instead of crossing the Andes driven by a colonial and libertarian ideal, would have been fattened mate on their land, so the emancipation had taken a little longer to reach the South American Pacific coasts. And if a named Ernesto Che Guevara Rosario had professed the narrow nationalism of the intellectuals Kirchner, Rosario had been immortalized in practicing medicine instead of going to risk his life for his revolutionary and socialist ideas in Guatemala, Cuba, the Congo and Bolivia.
Nationalism is an ideology that has always served the most bigoted of the right and left to justify its authoritarian inclinations, prejudices, racist, his bullying, and to hide his ideas orphaned after a firework slogans chauvinists. Is viscerally at odds with the culture, which is dialogue, coexistence in diversity, respect for others, the admission that the borders are ultimately administrative devices that can not abolish the solidarity between individuals and peoples of any geography, language, religion and customs as the nation-like race or religion is not a value or set hierarchies civic, political or moral between the human community. So, unlike other doctrines and ideologies such as socialism, democracy and liberalism, nationalism has not produced a single political or philosophical treatise worthy of memory, only pamphlets often so bland rhetoric as a belligerent. If someone saw it, and wrote it better, and embodied it in his civic conduct was among the American politicians and intellectuals that I admire most, the Argentine Juan Bautista Alberdi, who took his love of justice and freedom to oppose war they fought their own country against Paraguay, not caring that Intolerance fans accused him of treason.
censure vetoes and tend to preclude any discussion of intellectual life and make a tautological monologue in which disintegrate and turn ideas into slogans, platitudes and cliches. Kirchner intellectuals that only want to hear and read to those who think like them and who arrogate to themselves the exclusive representation of "popular movements" of his country are far from not just one or a Sarmiento Alberdi but also a genuinely democratic left, fortunately, is emerging in Latin America, and that in countries which has been or is in power, as in Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, has been capable of renewing, denying not only its traditional revolutionary beliefs at odds with democracy "formal" but to populism, an ideological sectarianism and state control, accepting the democratic process, the alternation in power, market, business and private investment, and formal institutions formerly called bourgeois. That left is driving renewed in a remarkable economic progress of their countries and strengthen the culture of freedom in Latin America.
What kind of intellectuals Kirchner Argentina want? A New Cuba, where, in fact, Liberals and Democrats could not ever give a lecture or participate in a debate and where they are only speaking the writers to serve the regime? The troubled Venezuela's Hugo Chávez is perhaps the model. But there, unlike members of the Open Letter, the vast majority of intellectuals, both left and right, not in favor of bans and censorship. On the contrary, fighting with great courage against the abuses to freedom of expression and the Chavez government's increased repression of any form of dissent or opposition.
Of those who seem to be much closer to what might imagine Horacio González and his colleagues is Kirchner that the picketers, a couple of years, were about to lynch, in Rosario, about thirty people attending a conference of liberals, when the bus in which we movilizábamos was ambushed by a gang of armed protesters sticks, stones and paint cans. For a while we had to endure a stoning that shattered all the glass of the vehicle and left him battered and scrawled up and down with insults. An interesting and instructive that seemed designed to illustrate the sad effect in our days of that confrontation between civilization and barbarism that described with such intelligence and good prose Sarmiento in his Facundo and Esteban Echeverría in this eerie tale is the slaughterhouse.
The director of the National Library, ie someone who is now the site dignified Jorge Luis Borges. I hope that does not assault ever thought of applying in his administration, the same approach that led him to ask you to silence a writer for the mere crime of not coincide with their political convictions. It would be terrible, but not inconsistent or arbitrary. I guess if it is bad that the "liberal" ideas, "bourgeois" and "reactionary" are heard in a lecture, it is also very bad and dangerous to be read. Hence there is only one way to purge the shelves of books that clash with "the current progressives of the Argentine people. "
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