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Latin American History, F*ck Yeah!: Today In Latin American History
May 25
- 1809: Revolution of Chuquisaca: The local Spanish colonial ruler is deposed in present-day Sucre, Bolivia, during one of the earliest successes of the South American Wars of Independence.
- 1810: At the end of the Revolución de Mayo, the people of Buenos Aires oust Baltazar Hidalgo de Cisneros, Viceroy of Rio de la Plata.
- 1819: A constitution drafted by the Congress of Tucumán is promulgated in Buenos Aires and quickly rejected by the provinces. Disagreement over the document’s contents leads to the Battle of Cepeda the following year.
- 1833: The Chilean constitution of 1833, one of the longest-lasting constitutions in Latin America, goes into effect. It remains in force until 1925.
- 1881: Gloria al Bravo Pueblo is established as the national anthem of Venezuela.
- 1908: Buenos Aires’ Teatro Colón is inaugurated with a performance of Verdi’s Aida.
- 1911: During the early stages of the Mexican Revolution, Porfirio Díaz steps down as Mexico’s head of state, ending the decades-long period known as the Porfiriato.
- 1982: During the Falklands War, members of Argentine Air Force and the Argentine Naval Aviation sink the British Navy’s HMS Coventry and the container ship Atlantic Conveyor, causing over twenty deaths.
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You waste the attention of your eyes,
the glittering labour of your hands,
and knead the dough enough for dozens of loaves
of which you’ll taste not a morsel;
you are free to slave for others-
you are free to make the rich richer.
The moment you’re born
they plant around you
mills that grind lies
lies to last you a lifetime.
You keep thinking in your great freedom
a finger on your temple
free to have a free conscience.
Your head bent as if half-cut from the nape,
your arms long, hanging,
you saunter about in your great freedom:
you’re free
with the freedom of being unemployed.
You love your country
as the nearest, most precious thing to you.
But one day, for example,
they may endorse it over to America,
and you, too, with your great freedom-
you have the freedom to become an air-base.
You may proclaim that one must live
not as a tool, a number or a link
but as a human being-
then at once they handcuff your wrists.
You are free to be arrested, imprisoned
and even hanged.
There’s neither an iron, wooden
nor a tulle curtain
in your life;
there’s no need to choose freedom:
you are free.
But this kind of freedom
is a sad affair under the stars.
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Except you can’t show a topless woman on TV - and you can’t defibrillate a woman in a bra. So victims of heart attacks on TV are *always* male. Did you know that a woman having a heart attack is more likely to have back or jaw pain than chest or left arm pain? I didn’t - because I’ve never seen a woman having a heart attack. I’ve been trained in CPR and Advanced First Aid by the Red Cross over 15 times in my life, the videos and booklets always have a guy and say the same thing about clutching his chest and/or bicep.
And people laugh when I tell them women are still invisible in this world.Things I did not know, but should.
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This is a post that might save a life.
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My mom worked for 25 years as an ER nurse and is convinced that a lot of women die simply because folks only know heart attack symptoms that occur in males.
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Society thinks our bodies are so scandalous that it’s better to put our lives at risk than to show us how to stay safe
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Posted on May 25, 2013 via the soul of wit. with 60,275 notes
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According to Peruvian prime minister Yehude Simon, the sending of letters (referring to Evo Morales’ letter to the Congreso de Indígenas) encouraging revolution was unacceptable. The United States had also demonstrated its opposition to traditional modes of correspondence in Latin America over the years, and had preferred orchestrating coups and training death squads.
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THE BURNING Of THE BOOKS
When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge
Should be publicly burned and on all sides
Oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books
To the bonfires, a banished
Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the Burned, was shocked to find that his
Books had been passed over. He rushed to his desk
On wings of wrath, and wrote a letter to those in power ,
Burn me! he wrote with flying pen, burn me! Haven’t my books
Always reported the truth ? And here you are
Treating me like a liar! I command you!
Burn me! -
“In Praise of Doubt” By Bertolt Brecht
Praised be doubt! I advise you to greet
Cheerfully and with respect the man
Who tests your word like a bad penny.
I’d like you to be wise and not to give
Your word with too much assurance.
Read history and see
The headlong flight of invincible armies.
Wherever you look
Impregnable strongholds collapse and
Even if the Armada was innumerable as it left port
The returning ships
Could be numbered.
Thus one day a man stood on the unattainable summit
And a ship reached the end of
The endless sea.
O Beautiful the shaking of heads
Over the indisputable truth!
O brave the doctor’s cure
Of the incurable patient!
But the most beautiful of all doubts
Is when the downtrodden and despondent
raise their heads and
Stop believing in the strength
Of their oppressors.
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There are the thoughtless who never doubt
Their digestion is splendid, their judgment is infallible.
They don’t believe in the facts, they believe only in
themselves.
When it comes to the point
The facts must go by the board
Their patience with themselves
Is boundless. To arguments
They listen with the ear of a police spy.
The thoughtless who never doubt
Meet the thoughtful who never act.
They doubt, not in order to come to a decision but
To avoid a decision. Their heads
They use only for shaking. With anxious faces
they warn the crews of sinking ships that water is dangerous.
Beneath the murderer’s axe
They ask themselves if he isn’t human too.
Murmuring something
About the situation not yet being clarified, they go to bed.
Their only action is to vacillate.
Their favorite phrase is: not yet ripe for discussion.
Therefore, if you praise doubt
Do not praise
The doubt which is a form of despair.
What use is the ability to doubt to a man
Who can’t make up his mind?
He who is content with too few reasons
May act wrongly
But he who needs too many
Remains inactive under danger.
You are a leader of men, do not forget
That you are that because you doubted other leaders.
So allow the leader
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In “The Religion of the Forest,” Tagore wrote about the influence that the forest dwellers of ancient India had on classical Indian literature. The forests are sources of water and the storehouses of a biodiversity that can teach us the lessons of democracy—of leaving space for others while drawing sustenance from the common web of life. Tagore saw unity with nature as the highest stage of human evolution.
Posted on May 23, 2013 via CWL with 81 notes
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There are people here who seem ready to create more poverty but leave those resources in the ground, or who even see poverty as something folkloric—as if children in the central highlands should keep dying of gastroenteritis and life expectancy should stay at 35.
Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s Path (via iapproveofyouropinion) -
…Knowing the North American media, I would be more worried if they spoke well of me.
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Rafael Correa bajo la lluvia. Guayas, Ecuador, 5 de enero 2013.
26 yr old Indian literature student trying to think.
