to
to
I am Alejandro roses and I am a popularizer of
the story and I recognize it well I do not
I am ashamed because my mission and I have
said for 27 years has been to be a
medium
I talk to the dead there are people who
he thinks he really talks to the dead
but it was not obvious I’m a medium because
What I do is sit down and listen to everyone
these characters that preceded us
they tell me their stories tell me their
romances
they tell me their account anecdotes what
who lived the context and I with certain
journalistic and gossip
I feel like trying to interpret what
they say to bring it to the present with
the idea of building the future from
then we are here with this idea
of past and future
I am also very pleased with
being here I had not been able to touch
some other occasion
I am very happy and thank you very much for
be here with us
we have and I have seen it
let’s say through these 27 years that
I’ve been spreading the story there
much difference between disclosure
of history and in being a month and
academic historian disclosure
basically it is put within reach of the
as many people as possible
history
let’s forget the theories
let’s forget the great trials but
rather try to land the
story so we can talk with
her and with the characters because it seems
a no-brainer but our characters from
the story were human beings and they
sick they called and hated
ambition much power of course the
they watered horribly as they followed
arriving today but they were beings
humans
that is the disclosure of history
but in Mexico we live today in
day I could and I have a theory a
little crazy after that and develop and
we suffer four riders from
Mexican apocalypse would be the first
the authoritarianism
the second is the simulation
the third is corruption and the fourth
it is impunity
those are the four horsemen of the
Mexican apocalypse forget about the ps
hunger and death and war from
then they are universal so that in
Mexico are very good
riding by
the republic these four the
authoritarianism impunity
the simulation and corruption but
us in this difficult moment
that we go through in Mexico, of course
it’s not comforting is that there were other
worse times we were invaded by
the Americans and the French
and the French once before we
They also wanted to remove territory with
the war of the pies and spain
tried to reconquer 12,829 each epoch
it has been difficult for mexico in many
senses
we have two said in the bicentennial
200 years under construction
I wonder if my master builder
he says hear me I’m going to finish his house
in 200 years
I would have thought before launching myself
hire that master builder and it’s a
misfortune for a country so rich and so
full of vitality like the one we have
today that we continue in construction
and tell us what we are still
construction but from the idea
of history
I believe that one of the great
obstacles that we are going through today
in day is the weight of history that
we carry on the shoulder
that is one of the obstacles that I see
as fundamental that we have to
take away that weight but we will not be able to
build is not the same to have the
reference story to have it as
the pipila that by the way did not exist
it was one of the myths of history
official and then the story as
social science is not is not the problem
the problem is the narrative of the
story that they told us and the problem
is that we almost all who
we are here in fact I think very
few will have been born in the 21st century
but all of us who were born in the century
twenty
more or less let’s say 1900 late
the 30s until the early sixties
until about 1985 we suffered a
narrative of the story that we
distorted it ripped us off and we
totally confused the cables and that
is what is known as history
official today the unofficial already
disappeared and we do not have to
tear our clothes for thinking of
that there is official history and then
they are going to manipulate us in the head and everything
that not all countries have history
official the problem in mexico
or is that for a long time in that
period that I tell you between 1900 and ships
from the 30 until 1985 87
we had an official story that did not
we could confront with absolutely
nothing was the only thing we have for
learn history we could not go today
like today famous to buy my books that
they are indeed extraordinary are
out there could not use the
historical novel more than when one
put some old bookstores
we could not even have a way of seeing
if villa was like the story told us
official or as some others told us
historians
we are totally biased as
we learned history through us
of the anniversary on Monday where
surely many of you
or disguise squad shot them
hidalgo of hidalgo in the ceremonies to
the flag we already knew by sa
through that burris and sima history
that was counted in the national time that
it was terrible it was like Soviet all to
10
hearing the same damn program and
starting with the national anthem and
ending with the national anthem I
it ended as well as if you must obey
if you must obey yes we must obey and
the other the free textbook
out there we did not have any kind
of more element to know the
story and then suddenly that
history that he left us is history
maniquea good against bad
this story not taught not how
History is taught
pondering the questioning
analyzing it by launching theories always
questioning so they taught us not to
they taught us how a catechism of
homeland history indoctrinated us here
in mexico has obtained us in the
history did not teach us history and
then suddenly we had dogmas of
faith of history
the matter of oil that so long
has been discussed and discussed and that
finally ended with a reform of
which we do not know its scope until
time after
the fact is that you could not even
touch the oil issue with the
a rose petal why because
who wanted to talk about privatization oo
put it in the hands of investors
foreigners or Mexicans was treason
the homeland became a dogma of
faith we could not even enter
talk about the possibility of it being
I could discuss only want
figures that we take away from them
names was no longer francisco i
Madero was the apostle of democracy
it was no longer pancho villa was the centaur
North was no longer the benito
meritorious of the americas and then
we build a network of good against
bad heroes against villains
for me the heroes are the captain
america iron man thor hulk
but not hidalgo nor allende nor wood
they are big players because
they dared to break their moment and their
epoch because they took a step that nobody
more would have dared to give in that
moment and that defined us if they are
different but at the moment one
he elevates them to the altar of a heroism that
it is practically legend or mythical
we lost contact with these
characters and next to these characters
we certainly have the villains
terrible traitors villains always to
the homeland of course as courts as
iturbide like porfirio díaz
of course also as santana not
may be missing and many more that
they drag victorian orchard that maybe
the only one that could fit by the
betrayal but that’s another story
the fact is that suddenly we have good
and bad guys and history taught us
when our the school going
attentively new players with their
reed flute
damn you never played a flute
reed because they put me a bassoon or a
saxophone and I tell them with knowledge of
juárez causes hamas or a
reed flute because he tells it
in a little book called
memories for my children never says hear
I was very poor and then I played the
reed flute next to the lagoon
charm is not or was the typical little stamp
that they sold us in the stationery but
as they told us the official story
there was always the possibility that
will be beings were predestined and
then practically from that
night of passion in which it was conceived
play is for an egg and a
sperm a juarez ovule not a
Juarez would be the Pope a sperm
Juarez and an ovule
from that moment I already brought the chip
that he was going to be a meritorious
homeland and then we could imagine
under the logic of official history to
Benito Juarez sitting like that
in a bucolic scene not the lagoon of
charm in san pablo guelatao a great
stone the sunset that is here in
Whisper of the wind that moves
saw trees and the touching his
damn reed flute but
practicing at 12 years old what
I would have to say in posterity was
basically and so I practiced was not
tempted ay in the lagoon of charm
then turn to see the sheep that
certainly not I of the town because you
they lost sheep and the uncle was going to hit him
that’s also not true that I because
poverty the courage there and he what
account
then we have to Benito Juarez
predestined sitting next to his sheep
and suddenly he turns towards the camera
as they were always the heroes of the
motherland turning to did it to the horizon
to the camera to give a sentence the
posterity and at that time coined the
famous phrase among the sheep as between
other species
respect for the rights of others is peace and
So together with Juanes, we could imagine
hidalgo playing with his companions
class that freed them from oppression
of the teachers or for example we
they also told stories one that
it seems to me that cookies maria
to cut the veins olite that is
tell them the scene is the state of
Morelos more or less would be like 1880
Emiliano Zapata plays there among the
cornfields with a wand chasing
a lizard and suddenly among the
cornfields today the crying of a person and
then it approaches where is the
crying leaves the wand if everything goes
opening the cornfields and see your dad
prostrate next to a tree
at 9 years emiliano zapata see his
dad crying and then dad says
that he has is dad and then he flips the
dad too although he did not close the
motherland turns towards the camera and says
wipes the tears said is that the
landowners have taken away the land and
then child shoe hits also to
the papa clique at nine years old
I swear to you that when you grow up, you have to
the face back and I at nine
years was played in babia
little runs covered with the little stamps
bellamar school
– playboy who came to school
lasallista and clandestinely
I was not thinking about releasing the
motherland is not thinking about making a
social revolution
but that is the mexico who donated us
drew the official story and that
official story left us several
sequels to start a society
polarized the polarization that we live
Today is not only in politics not
only if the grooming dog is
bread does or if the pri or yes brown if not
comes from being taught to think about
black and white and not in chiaroscuros
Mexico is a country almost predestined if
it’s worth the expression not to be
agreement never
the only time they put on
agreement was when the consummation of the
independence and already in all the rest
moments wars and revolutions
then he made us for nobody
polarized number 2
made us prejudiced until the wall of
in front
how many times have you not heard
that today our corruption
we practically owe it to the
Spaniards arrived in the 16th century to
mexico and that all calamities
had and have
they arrived then they made us
prejudices we already forget that it is
absurd to keep thinking that we
we are determined today in the middle of the century
twenty-one
because the Spaniards conquered us
please we have to leave all
these visions or other which
gringos are to blame for everything if they are
miserable and they are cursed being abused
at times but there is also a
historical responsibility is not of
our ruling class and that of the
own society in which you have allowed everything
then those prejudices and are extremely
prejudiced let’s forget that if the
gringos took away the territory if
it was a disgrace it was a vile dispossession and
miserable but they are 170 years ago
we can not continue to carry the story
like the pottery of the pípila
another important element that left us
the official story the victimization
Mexican poor people all want to see
face
ernesto canto I do not remember which one
marchista and in Moscow entering by the
tunnel if they remember in the stadium already
to enter the march and suddenly
he does not come out and disqualify him and not to the pits
slogan against mexico
the ghost of machala I do not remember in
that world soccer championship that
I played the cup america I think in
Ecuador or in some
place some countries of South America and
then at a certain moment the
light turns on we get a goal and we lose
the famous criminal and robyn that was that
It was not that we threw and threw it
everything that happened around a
penal
the official story taught us to
victimize us and worst of all we
He taught us to be defeatist
our mentality has certainly
changed and I think we live the best
moment of the civil society of all the
Mexican history and next to that better
civil society of the whole Mexican island
we have the worst political class of
the whole Mexican history and that
we have had worse political classes
but this one in particular has been careful
in showing us that you can always
be worse but fortunately we have
a society that should no longer live on
those prejudices that you should no longer live on
this victimization and that we do not
we can continue thinking that we live
although we are the green mice in the
football or that we always do badly or that
we have a dangerous sign on mexico
because he conquered the Spanish
if our mothers were raped and
everything was violated of course it was a
process hard but not like to say that
today to five almost five centuries of the
conquest of mexico
we are determined by that all that is
product of the 20th century and all that stuff
absolutely has built in the
20th century by the official history does not
mentalized for that you do not have to look
in the 16th and 17th century and in the 18th
there we can find several things but
obviously our problems
current come from the last 50
years where all this
official story where they taught us and
they indoctrinated us a story that did not
that corresponded to him for that and when
soon we intend to demystify the
history caused a shock for a lot
people have told me that I am in the
poisoner of children and
Mexican youth because it occurred to me
say that Juarez stopped being a
indigenous to become a
citizen because he’s never there’s a
Juarez’s only speech where he says
hear consent in a little bit is that
I am a Zapotec Indian
and why they do not respect and their uses and
customs and then you will see
hamas there is not a single line of juárez
saying that
Juarez greatness seems to me if it is the
that if there is something that exists in Juarez it is
that he was always conceived equal before
others
just like the Creole that the mestizo
that the gringo that he the Austrian that
by the way
fortunately, we shot in the hill
the bells in 1867 deserved it but
there was never an act or a combination of
its part then I insist I think that
we should leave the story on the side
load it as if it were a book and not
carry it on my back and I think our
society today is very dynamic
we still have a lot to do, I think
sometimes we seem like a pack of
wild animals that suddenly
unite and do very good things and from
soon they scatter again but I
I insist that the best version of the
society of the Mexican island in which
we are living by how is it
moving but we need to remove that
obstacle
let’s leave the official story now
forgotten and we learned it and had to
machete to two dates and we had to
learn them on August 8 , 1879
zapata nation or that July 20,
1923 killed pancho villa or that 30
On October 1873 Francis was born
or that September 16 began
independence and 27 was the
consummation or that on May 5 the
national weapons were covered in glory
or that on May 21, 1920, they murdered
carranza
that was just a parenthesis for
demonstrate my extraordinary memory
as for the story, it is not relevant
the ephemeris I never liked
but nothing more to finish because
it is also about to explode this
not come already and I’m afraid
I insist that I think how is the
better version of the society that
they exist in mexico so difficult and
convulsed
what we need is to get rid of that
damn them to put aside and that the
history becomes only a
concerning
let’s stop using history for
political flags because now we’re going to
see in 18 surely that all the
world is going to say juarez is from me
party and ways of my party and not me
I believe that they are to overturn their
graves because they had a lot in their
epochs to history must be understood
in its time and in its context
the characters have to be understood and
understand them in those moments and
we try to understand a pancho
villa
in today’s light is going to be a failure
I insist that what we have for
in front is let’s take it back
the page of history let’s remove
that slab that we do not leave behind the
prejudices
let’s do an intellectual striptease of
prejudices and let’s build and that
the story only makes the referent or
the reference of all those principles and
all those ideas that have not been able
translate and set in Mexico
I do believe despite how difficult it is
we are and despite all that is
He is living today and despite
that we have to ask many accounts to
the entire political class
I think there’s always hope for
country and I do see that we can go out
forward but now it’s like he dreamed
at some time responsibility
and in competition of citizens
thank you very much and read a lot of history
[Applause]
the loas
”
Be First to Comment