El águila y la serpiente

Charles Minguet, el biógrafo por excelencia de Humboldt, escribió: "La obra de Humboldt es un nuevo descubrimiento, verdadero, de un continente y una humanidad confinados durante tres siglos en el recinto estrictamente cerrado del pacto colonial". Esta cita retoma la idea de que el barón fue el continuador de Cristóbal Colón en el descubrimiento europeo de América. Esta obra señala algunas dimensiones de la continuidad.

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No había pasado una semana de la derrota de Cavite cuando La Veu de Catalunya afirmó que los catalanes estamos clavados a una barca que hace agua; si queremos salvarnos hemos de aflojar las ataduras . Un siglo largo después, Oriol Pujol, ante el congreso de su partido de marzo de 2012, agradeció a su padre y a Artur Mas que hubieran enseñado a los catalanes cómo superar los escollos y huir de estas aguas podridas que nos ahogan . Entre ambas metáforas náuticas ha transcurrido un siglo de ingeniería ideológica destinada a convencer a los catalanes de que España es la eterna enemiga...

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