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Official history than Basque Nuñez de Balboa was the first man he saw, from the top of Panama, the two oceans. The people who lived there blind?
Who gave their first names to corn and potatoes and tomatoes and chocolate and the mountains and rivers of America? "Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro? Those who lived there were they silent?
The Mayflower pilgrims heard: God said that America was the Promised Land. That there lived, were they deaf?
Then the grandchildren of those pilgrims from the north took over the name and everything else. Now, they are American. Those who live in the other Americas, what are we?
Official history than Basque Nuñez de Balboa was the first man he saw, from the top of Panama, the two oceans. The people who lived there blind?
Who gave their first names to corn and potatoes and tomatoes and chocolate and the mountains and rivers of America? "Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro? Those who lived there were they silent?
The Mayflower pilgrims heard: God said that America was the Promised Land. That there lived, were they deaf?
Then the grandchildren of those pilgrims from the north took over the name and everything else. Now, they are American. Those who live in the other Americas, what are we?
Galeano, Eduardo. Mirrors. Siglo XXI. 2008
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