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La Emperatriz

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“I was born on an island, a very small island, twelve miles long and eight miles wide; yet when I left it at nineteen years of age I had never set foot on three-quarters of it. I had recently met someone who was born on the other side of the world from me but had visited this island on which my family had lived for generations; this person, a woman, had said to me, ‘What a beautiful place,’ and she named a village by the sea and then went on to describe a view that was unknown to me. At the time I was so ashamed I could hardly make a reply, for I had come to believe that people in my position in the world should know everything about the place they are from. I know this: it was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; Columbus never set foot there but only named it in passing, after a church in Spain. He could not have known that he would have so many things to name, and I imagined how hard he had to rack his brain after he ran out of names honoring his benefactors, the saints he cherished, events important to him. A task like that would have killed a thoughtful person, but he went on to live a very long life.”

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“Hay en el Caribe administraciones diferentes, tendencias culturales completamente diversas, rivalidades entre naciones integrantes del conjunto y presiones de variada naturaleza que se sienten tanto más fuertemente cuanto más pequeña sea el área sobre la cual se ejercen. Y a esto hay que sumar el componente humano constituído por elementos raciales completamente heterogéneos. Sin tomar todo esto en consideración sería imposible comprender el alma del conjunto.”

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Book:Geopolítica del Caribe
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