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Great liberators like Bolívar, Hidalgo, and San Martín should be honored for what they built, not disqualified by their faults, because 'the sun burns with the same light with which it warms.' People who fixate on the sun's spots are the ungrateful ones. A hero's defects come from the same intensity that made the achievement possible.
A person who conceals what they think, or does not dare to say it, is not an honest person, and someone who obeys bad laws and lets others mistreat their country is not fully honorable. Honesty here means speaking and acting on your convictions in public, not just avoiding lies. Silence under injustice counts as complicity.
In 'La muñeca negra,' the girl Piedad receives an elegant new doll for her birthday but secretly chooses her worn, dark-skinned rag doll, which she has loved and cared for. The story teaches that affection comes from attention and shared history, not polish or price. It also rejects the idea that the pale, expensive figure should win by default.
Pieces like 'La historia del hombre contada por sus casas' and 'Las ruinas indias' treat human history as legible in how peoples built and lived. This places pre-Columbian cities on the same level as Europe's past. Children taught to see Indigenous ruins as evidence of high civilization grow up proud of an American heritage rather than ashamed of it.