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Marcelo Gullo, the Argentine historian and writer of the Madre Patria trilogy, continues to face persecution for his tutorial and academic efforts geared toward debunking the Black Legend about Spain within the Americas.
The newest episode occurred this previous Friday, April 4, when Agnes Bosch, Dean of the School of Humanities on the College of Puerto Rico, knowledgeable the organizers—the Affiliation of Hispanists of Puerto Rico—that the occasion had been canceled.
What many already think about an act of censorship was introduced on social media simply hours earlier than the lecture was scheduled to happen on the college at 11:00 a.m., an occasion that had been confirmed by the establishment weeks upfront.
“Sadly, we should inform you that, by unilateral resolution of the College, the lecture that Marcelo Gullo was to ship at the moment, April 4, has been canceled,” the organizers posted, additionally asserting that the lecture could be held at a unique location, to be introduced shortly.
The lecture, titled Spain, Motherland of Hispanic America, was solely the primary of a full schedule that’s formally set to proceed subsequent Monday on the Iberia Lodge, the place Gullo is staying.
“I wish to say that I obtained a really heat welcome in Puerto Rico from the organizers of this convention, and folks have even come from the USA to listen to me converse. I used to be invited by the School of Humanities on the College of Puerto Rico, by means of the Affiliation of Hispanists directed by Professor Lariana Olguín, however final evening the very Dean of the College, Mrs. Agnes Bosch, prevented the lecture from happening,” Gullo advised Infobae.
“Due to its basically Hispanic message”
Gullo has obtained messages of assist from world wide all through the day by way of social media. One particularly important gesture got here from Víctor Colón, a Puerto Rican professor who had deliberate to attend the lecture together with his college students and denounced the cancellation “due to its basically Hispanic message.”
“Let the enemies of our Hispanic essence be warned. The the Aristocracy of our folks has survived assaults, plagues, hurricanes, earthquakes, colonialism—and it’s nonetheless alive. We converse in Spanish, we love in Spanish, we pray in Spanish, and at the moment in Spanish we shout: you’ll not silence us.”
By José María Carrera Hurtado.
Translation by Joana Campos.
This text was initially revealed in Spanish by Religión en Libertad.
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