March 16, 2016, 17:06 San Juan, March 16 (PL) the king of Spain, Philip VI, was charged today by Puerto Rican Eduardo Lalo an act of “barbarism” in the VII International Congress of the Spanish Language (Intensive Spanish), which meets in San Juan.
Along with the Spanish monarch, he was also accused of such action the director of the Cervantes Institute, Victor Garcia de la Concha, offering their speeches yesterday during the opening ceremony of the conclave attended by more than 300 writers, journalists and personalities 24 countries.
Lalo, Award Romulo Gallegos 2013, who attends CILE as a guest, made a serene review of both lectures by the nuances of one, Philip VI, and levity other, Garcia de la Concha, the refer to Puerto Rico.
the Spanish monarch and the director of the Cervantes Institute were identified by the author of the novel “Simone” to evade the appropriate treatment to Puerto Rico, beyond hosting this quote it is held every three years by the resistance that involves preserving their Spanish language and Hispanic culture.
Lalo said Garcia de la Concha after an epic, thorough and self-indulgent list of past conferences, when he held the opened Tuesday stressed that “it was the first time not held in Latin America”.
“And said it was in a territory that has endeavored to preserve the historical legacy that includes, he says, the Spanish language and blood ties, “explained the award-winning writer in the article” barbaric acts “which appears in the newspaper El Nuevo Dia.
the writer said he was overwhelmed by the reckless barbarity “an official who has an important and official position, which has had three years to understand the Puerto Rican situation, we take no more in a couple of sentences, of our natural and cultural environment”.
he said that shortly after, in his speech, king Philip VI announced that “is glad to visit with the Queen to the United States and discover a place where the Spanish” mestizo “alternates with English.” Felipe VI added that this “is not the place to treat the history of Puerto Rico,” he recalled Lalo considering that “this Congress is the place and the perfect occasion to treat this story. Where would it be more relevant and appropriate?”
“Puerto Rico is not part of the United States, but a territory invaded by that nation in the Spanish-American War of 1898. Then Spain ceded this land in the Treaty of Paris as war booty, without defending or consider at least, the fate of its inhabitants “, said the professor at the state University of Puerto Rico.
he stated that” If Puerto Rico, after almost 118 years of aggression and US pressure, has preserved the Spanish language and its Caribbean and Latin American culture, and has developed much or more than other countries in America, has been by the will, the strength and creative energy that we possess “.
” Ignore serious political problem of Puerto Rico, which are also responsible for both Spain and the United States, he is at least an act of unconsciousness or ignorance and also violence directed at us, who are their hosts, “he said.
Eduardo Lalo said that “a country and a people is not it invisible or is taken out of the family of American peoples, to take forward a wrong strategy, doomed, dedicated to support the Spanish in the United States true “.
” once again check the prudishness of Spain and other American peoples, that before the colonial tragedy of Puerto Rico, act as if it did not exist and had nothing to do with them, “he said before waiting for more clarity, solidarity and responsibility of those who have chosen to proffer “so many empty words and barbaric”
the writer warned that “neither culture nor language are ornaments for us.; They constitute what binds us to life and allowing us daily fight fiercely against the historical conditions that have suffered and still suffer “
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