For Maximiliano Moreno
When the English arrived in America in his mind brought major social handicaps of the Old Continent: slavery and war.
During the two thousand years of written history of this continent, before the discovery of America, slavery was a normal, in which human beings could dispose at will of the lives of others due to wars.
Slavery was the product of developed societies where agriculture and needed labor. In cultures of America, the Mayas, Aztecs and Incas also developed forms of slavery. In the regional companies, the show was and is cruel public, but in Rome reached its maximum relief. But this madness
slave in the Roman Empire became blood of gladiators and wild beasts, eating the supposed enemies of the Empire and celebrated by tens of thousands of spectators in the conquest of America, became the subjugation and humiliation transport nearly 100 million black Africans, brought on condition of costly and more intelligent animals.
Bartolomé de las Casas, in the early years of the arrival of the conquistadors in America, Indian slavery was able to stop in the court of Charles V.
Portugal, who had not found the enormous wealth in gold that he found Spain, saw blacks in big business and the slave trade actually became wealth also attracted British, French and Dutch. This was legal for 4 centuries. The first Afro
probably reached the west coast of Africa to Esmeraldas. By the middle of XV century, ran aground off the coast of the province of Esmeraldas a slave ship, was allegedly in Punta Galeras, where exactly is the name of the place, because galleries were places where black people were confined to his move to America.
A second group arrived from Cartagena de Indias, possibly in the Congo and Central Africa. Brought by the Jesuits arrive for their plantations in the Valle del Chota current arriving first to the Design and curd, the two huge sugar plantations. Esmeraldas
blacks, made this area stretching from Port of Buena Ventura, now part of Colombia. to Bahia in the middle of the Ecuadorian coast., territory Maroon, with nearly a thousand kilometers of coastline. These maroons, slaves are not subject to the English Crown established the first free territory in America, winning dozens of armed fighting in the imperial army, which allowed nations such as Chachi, Awa, EPER, and other live under their defense in a covenant relationship.
The independence of Ecuador, by Simon Bolivar, who was suckled by a black, and gave blacks freedom, came to nothing. In 1851, when it ran a current of Europe anti-slavery, the government of the mulatto, General José María Urbina, and they abolished slavery supported them with a much-feared army of black called the Tauras.
But in the Andean area meant that does not change, even Alfaro's Liberal Revolution, which began with a black army, the so-called black von Max Knight of Colonel Vargas Torres, who were defeated in Azuay, but succeeded in integrating the montoneras of "Old Fighter." Neither Carlos Concha's rebellion in 1914, which came up with his men to the area to oust Liberal traitors of the Revolution. Nothing changed in some Andean misery of black, instead Andean blacks turned their backs on those who were armed from the coast.
The government of General Eloy Alfaro founded a school in La Conception, but could not run in his first year because the local pseudo-slaves did not want their children study together.
After the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1765, this tierrras went to the Royal Audience of Quito and then to the mountain landowners who were corretatedos by the Liberal Revolution. Afroandinos however preferred to remain pawns badly treated and poorly paid, due to an ultra conservative Catholic religious fanaticism.
train's arrival was in 1950 that changed their lives. This technological advances opened the door to a new horizon finally felt free and when the Agrarian Reform in 1968 and in 1974 were first home owners, animals and their land, that even the fight won but mostly bought them.
Catholic bigotry has undergone even in places like La Conception, living in poverty in the old world of double standards catílica, so that young people prefer to escape; but neighboring towns in Chota, La Loma, Guallupe have found ways to a different future encouraged by the success and professional sports people.
In Esmeraldas, technological progress and operated road in the opposite direction, the afrocosteños, have lost their land in the fields as roads go. They now live in crowded slums of Bourbon, Esmeraldas, Quito, Guayaquil. Devastate the forests tended their grandparents. Are locked in street violence, gangs, juvenile prostitution and wickedness, which hits the door of their huts.
And although it has produced the best athletes, writers, dancers and poets this country is. Technology and development has not served spaces to give dignity to the vast majority of them. Only a few who become professionals, politicians, and wealthy merchants have taken advantage.
When the English arrived in America in his mind brought major social handicaps of the Old Continent: slavery and war.
During the two thousand years of written history of this continent, before the discovery of America, slavery was a normal, in which human beings could dispose at will of the lives of others due to wars.
Slavery was the product of developed societies where agriculture and needed labor. In cultures of America, the Mayas, Aztecs and Incas also developed forms of slavery. In the regional companies, the show was and is cruel public, but in Rome reached its maximum relief. But this madness
slave in the Roman Empire became blood of gladiators and wild beasts, eating the supposed enemies of the Empire and celebrated by tens of thousands of spectators in the conquest of America, became the subjugation and humiliation transport nearly 100 million black Africans, brought on condition of costly and more intelligent animals.
Portugal, who had not found the enormous wealth in gold that he found Spain, saw blacks in big business and the slave trade actually became wealth also attracted British, French and Dutch. This was legal for 4 centuries. The first Afro
probably reached the west coast of Africa to Esmeraldas. By the middle of XV century, ran aground off the coast of the province of Esmeraldas a slave ship, was allegedly in Punta Galeras, where exactly is the name of the place, because galleries were places where black people were confined to his move to America.
A second group arrived from Cartagena de Indias, possibly in the Congo and Central Africa. Brought by the Jesuits arrive for their plantations in the Valle del Chota current arriving first to the Design and curd, the two huge sugar plantations. Esmeraldas
blacks, made this area stretching from Port of Buena Ventura, now part of Colombia. to Bahia in the middle of the Ecuadorian coast., territory Maroon, with nearly a thousand kilometers of coastline. These maroons, slaves are not subject to the English Crown established the first free territory in America, winning dozens of armed fighting in the imperial army, which allowed nations such as Chachi, Awa, EPER, and other live under their defense in a covenant relationship.
The independence of Ecuador, by Simon Bolivar, who was suckled by a black, and gave blacks freedom, came to nothing. In 1851, when it ran a current of Europe anti-slavery, the government of the mulatto, General José María Urbina, and they abolished slavery supported them with a much-feared army of black called the Tauras. But in the Andean area meant that does not change, even Alfaro's Liberal Revolution, which began with a black army, the so-called black von Max Knight of Colonel Vargas Torres, who were defeated in Azuay, but succeeded in integrating the montoneras of "Old Fighter." Neither Carlos Concha's rebellion in 1914, which came up with his men to the area to oust Liberal traitors of the Revolution. Nothing changed in some Andean misery of black, instead Andean blacks turned their backs on those who were armed from the coast.
The government of General Eloy Alfaro founded a school in La Conception, but could not run in his first year because the local pseudo-slaves did not want their children study together.
After the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1765, this tierrras went to the Royal Audience of Quito and then to the mountain landowners who were corretatedos by the Liberal Revolution. Afroandinos however preferred to remain pawns badly treated and poorly paid, due to an ultra conservative Catholic religious fanaticism.
train's arrival was in 1950 that changed their lives. This technological advances opened the door to a new horizon finally felt free and when the Agrarian Reform in 1968 and in 1974 were first home owners, animals and their land, that even the fight won but mostly bought them. Catholic bigotry has undergone even in places like La Conception, living in poverty in the old world of double standards catílica, so that young people prefer to escape; but neighboring towns in Chota, La Loma, Guallupe have found ways to a different future encouraged by the success and professional sports people.
In Esmeraldas, technological progress and operated road in the opposite direction, the afrocosteños, have lost their land in the fields as roads go. They now live in crowded slums of Bourbon, Esmeraldas, Quito, Guayaquil. Devastate the forests tended their grandparents. Are locked in street violence, gangs, juvenile prostitution and wickedness, which hits the door of their huts.
And although it has produced the best athletes, writers, dancers and poets this country is. Technology and development has not served spaces to give dignity to the vast majority of them. Only a few who become professionals, politicians, and wealthy merchants have taken advantage.
