AFTER THE HISTORICAL TRACES OF THE BICENTENNIAL OF NICARAGUA

Abstract

In commemoration of the bicentennial of Central America, this article was born with the fundamental objective of analyzing the political and philosophical contents that have been transmitted to us during these 200 years of independence from the Hispanic Empire. To do this, we will go back to the former Captaincy General of the Assumption of Guatemala, Spanish viceroyalty, which lived its independence, without shedding a drop of blood. A completely different event from the struggles that Mexico or South America waged, where bloody wars such as the one waged by Morelos, Simón Bolívar, José Antonio Sucre, Artigas, O’Higgins, San Martín, Céspedes or José Martí were fought in Cuba.

The history of Central America has been distorted many times by political and religious interests, in addition to the fact that a large part of that regional historiography has been marked, with broad nuances of colonialism, chauvinism, fetishism, and neocolonialism, coincidentally many of the historical inaccuracies in the American continent lies in feeding the so-called “malinche curse” and thus justifying the historical antecedents of the colony and modernity. There are hundreds of documents, which repeatedly exalt European superiority, before the supposed tyranny and autochthonous American idolatry, being abundant the authors who are passionate with Greco-Roman romanticism, to justify their xenophilia and political xenolatry, giving way to the construction o conception of hegemonic modernity, under all its Eurocentric nuances.
In the province of Nicaragua, one of the few intellectuals who dared to “rebel” against the colonial system was Miguel Larreynaga, along with the Honduran José Cecilio del Valle, who drafted the act of independence, giving rise to the government chaired precisely by the Spanish Gabino Gainza; who, in addition to becoming president, was called a “distinguished” of the independence of Central America, despite clearly always obeying the peninsular and Creole interest, which sought to avoid paying tribute to the Spanish crown. Coincidentally, this is how the historical events began to be built, which marked the Central American independence, building the concept of “heroes” of the emancipation of the Spaniards themselves, the best case is of the aforementioned Mr. “Gabino Gainza.”