De Eva a Cristina

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En este segundo tomo, Braudel relata en el capítulo "Los acontecimientos, la política y los hombres" una historia de hechos, de oscilaciones breves. Se llega a la distinción dentro del tiempo de la historia, de un tiempo geográfico, un tiempo social y un tiempo individual. Inicia con la guerra en el Mediterráneo de 1551 y termina con la muerte de Felipe II en 1598.

El personalismo militarista ha sido, quizá, la máxima expresión tumoral de nuestro existir político bicentenario como nación independiente. La patria criolla tuvo en su gestación un pecado original: la imposición de un personalismo pretoriano que colocó en la fuerza de las armas la capacidad de decisión política. Con dolor, debe constatarse que el liderazgo hegemónico y centralista de Simón Bolívar no solo no fue ajeno a ese mal, sino que constituyó —en el período bélico independentista— su máxima expresión en cuanto mito de origen de nuestra entidad republicana. La...

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