{"id":2444,"date":"2017-09-24T15:39:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T15:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armando.info\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2017-09-24T15:39:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T15:39:39","slug":"a-revolution-of-santeros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armando.info\/en\/a-revolution-of-santeros\/","title":{"rendered":"A Revolution of Santeros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bolivar's \r\nface was behind him, shadowing him, as was often the case. He wore a red shirt \r\nand a dark blue jacket, which looked black before the intense spotlights of the \r\ncameras. His voice was not the usual, because it seemed calmer. He breathed each \r\nsyllable softly, as if he were trying not to wake someone who sleeps. Despite \r\nhis intimate communication, he was addressing the entire \r\ncountry.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

Father \r\nBol\u00edvar. Bol\u00edvar. We have seen Bol\u00edvar. His rests. (The camera made close up of \r\nthe face of the Liberator, which the painter wanted to capture tousled from the \r\nwind). I have had some doubts, of course. I am not the first throughout these \r\nyears. But last night, when seeing the remains of Bol\u00edvar, my heart said \"yes, \r\nit is me\". And I remembered Neruda, looking at the skeleton, looking at the \r\nskull, looking at the space where the eyes were. And I asked him in silence, \r\npraying, that question of Neruda, of the great Pablo Neruda. I asked him: \r\n\u00abFather, are you, or are not you, or who are you?\u00bb And Neruda himself answered \r\nme from the heart: \"Yes, it is me, but I wake up every hundred years when the \r\npeople wake up.\"<\/I><\/p>\n\n\n

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The \r\nAyacucho hall, in the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, burst into applause. At \r\nthat moment, his ceremonial ended, almost in a prayerful tone. And he returned \r\nto his facet as a battler, to the attack before the \r\ncameras.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

Of \r\ncourse, since last night when I made public the information via @chavezcandanga, \r\nand later on when I told the ministers to broadcast live as at around two to \r\nthree in the morning (...)on Twitter and some media started to say \u00abCh\u00e1vez is \r\nleading an act of witchcraft\u00bb. They are sick. It's a disease they have. \r\n\u00abWitchcraft, it is witchcraft\u00bb. However, 80% to 90% of the messages where mostly \r\nfrom people spiritually touched, who were saying, \"\u00a1Viva Bol\u00edvar!\" and \r\n\"retweeting\" the message that I had the idea to send, because men like Bol\u00edvar \r\ndo not die. Those remains that are there are not dead. It is something like that \r\nwork by the great Venezuelan writer Isaac J. Pardo called \u201cFuego bajo el agua\u201d, \r\nthey are fire under water, or that work by Miguel Otero Silva, \u201cLa piedra que \r\nera Cristo\u201d (The stone that was Christ). That stone is Bol\u00edvar alive, alive in \r\nus, and alive in those we are fighting today because men like Bol\u00edvar \r\ntranscended time.<\/I><\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

He \r\nsaid it himself, my anguish will live in the future.<\/I><\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t

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