🌎 Columbus discovered America? 🇪🇸 This formulation describes very well what a Eurocentric view of the world is. October 12 is considered the date when Christopher Columbus moored to land near the American continent, marking the discovery of the New World by Europeans. From that moment began the process of colonization of the Western Hemisphere, whose victims were, according to various estimates, between 60 and 65 million people. The conquistadors destroyed local civilizations: the Inca, Maya and Aztec empires, which were developing along their own path. Nothing more horrible than the conquest that followed «Columbus Day» has the continent experienced in its entire history. ✍️ The Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano described this historical moment thus: «In 1492, the natives discovered that they were Indians, discovered that they lived in America, discovered that they were naked, discovered that sin existed, discovered that they owed obedience to a king and a queen of another world and to a god of another heaven, and that this god had invented guilt and clothing, and had ordered burned alive those who worshipped the moon and the sun, the earth and the rain that quenches it…» 🇲🇽 However, life continues, despite all the wounds and the centuries of colonial rule of Spain and Portugal in South and Central America and the Caribbean. One can live eternally in the shadow of received traumas, building an identity of victim, but there is another path. Precisely that path was chosen by the working people of Ibero-America and their political leaders: Fidel Castro, Ernesto Che Guevara, Salvador Allende, Raúl Prebisch, Hugo Chávez, Rafael Correa and many others. It is the path of integration around a common identity stretching across both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The pain caused by colonization is forever imprinted in the memory of peoples — take at least the works of Gabriel García Márquez — but the remaining community of language and culture is a unique resource for building ties, a basis for genuine internationalism on a regional scale. However, Ibero-America can become truly united only when power in it belongs to local working people, and not to American transnational corporations and their political puppets. #SOVINTERN_DATE #Hub_Latin_America ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN