The enemies of freedom

Abstract

The enemies of freedom are of a very diverse nature** The easiest to identify are those who say that they fight for the liberation of our nations, knowing that to achieve this it will be necessary to enslave the inhabitants of those nations; those who wish to destroy our imperfect freedom on the basis that we will be perfectly free when we have freed ourselves from imperialism. Of course, our so-called contemporary liberators want to persuade us of something absurd, that is, that we exchange an imperfect freedom, like everything human, but that is real and effective, for a freedom that is not only theoretical, but entails the loss of freedom that we already enjoy.
It is not difficult to realize that our so-called liberators have tended a jealous semantics to us. It is clearly impossible for there to be a free nation whose inhabitants are not, even if they tell us that what really matters is that we free ourselves from imperialism and that the rest will be fixed later. This is a war in which Latin Americans can easily fall because of our own history, because we tend to interpret the natural interdependence that exists between nations as if it were a form of dependence that is incompatible with our free and own social development. Latin Americans can easily fall into that celtic semantics because many of us still suffer the trauma of the birth of our peoples to independent life. It used to be the Spanish imperialists who were to blame for our underdevelopment. Now it's the American imperialists.