Verdades Ocultas

In writing this book, I have proposed to explore those Salvadoran stories, dusty pages that have been denied and hidden from us by the economic power and its Governments, since the times of the Spanish invasion. We have been systematically denied the truth of that history, which is part of our being as indigenous peoples, that it belongs to us, of our identity, that has been stolen and mistreated from us for more than 528 years. This is how I have proposed to search under the rubble of the past and its enigmas, the truth about our historical past of our ancestors, colonization, independence, the uprisings of the first settlers, the genocide and ethnocide against our ancestors. As well as crimes against humanity. The role that the Catholic Church has played in the colonization and imposition of Christianity and its Holy Inquisition. I also want to tell you to get ready because in this book, you will find many surprises and facts that will clash with your beliefs and notions of being human. The cruelty of the Spanish conquerors, as well as the lies and falsehoods in which we Salvadorans have been educated.

That Lent without resurrection, to which our ancestors were subjected, which began with the Spanish invasion, until our days 2020. For the first time, they are the voices of our ancestors in the presence of our original generation, their grandparents and grandmothers, the youth and their current leaders. It is the history from our perspective of the native peoples. It is our voice, the one that comes with the winds of El Roble, Ahuachapán, Tacuba, Ataco, Apaneca, Juayúa, Nahuizalco, Izalco, Sonsonate, Santo Domingo de Guzmán, other towns and cantons of our Cushcatan. Yes, that voice that rises like a cry, from the depths of the ancestral heart in the present generations of the first settlers, who say enough is enough! Enough of so much exploitation, racism and hatred, for our pure blood, born in the mountains, hills and plains of our Cushcatan.

In the following pages, I take a tour of the “Black History of Spain” and its consequences for the Amerindian peoples. The reader will discover the strategies used, torture methods and tactics of their "cover-up". Also, I have worked and present for the debate the following topics:

• The policies and plans of the FMLN government in the last 10 years;
• Study of the original communities of Nahuizalco, Tacuba and Santo Domingo de Guzmán;
• Origin, and development of the first settlers of Cushcatan: Mayas, Nahuas, Lencas and other peoples descendants of those peoples;
• Invasion, conquest and the "so-called independence of El Salvador";
• Celebration of October 12, in honor of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus; F. On August 6 we celebrate the defeat and genocide of the original peoples of El Salvador;
• The invisivilization of our original culture and its implications;
• The role of the Catholic Church in crimes against humanity and imposition of the Catholic Religion;
• The Salvadoran community in Melbourne-Australia since 1984.

I know that these issues challenge the debate and question the true Salvadoran identity, its love for our country and its true heroes ... Not the false heroes, idealized by the mestizo Creole oligarchy - Salvadoran ladino. For the heroes and the homeland that we call “ours” to be truly ours, we have to go to the bottom, to the roots of the foundation of this land called Cushcatan by our Nahua, Maya- Chorti, Lencas, Kakawiras, Pokomames, Xincas, Izalcos , and other ethnic groups, who first came to Cushcatan and developed it to the splendor of an advanced civilization.

I also refer to my walk from Ahuachapán (El Salvador) to Australia, overnight as a refugee; my jobs, dreams and passions, working with my Salvadoran community, walking together, leaning on our needs and aspirations in this new country Australia, the experiences, problems, failures and triumphs, of a community living, developing in exile, with all the challenges of being a refugee.

I want to emphasize that this is an attempt to explore those hidden truths denied to the Salvadoran people and present with the greatest humility of being a practical and fighter person, in the various paths of life; but especially the paths of Social Justice, there in El Salvador and in Australia; therefore, I am not one of those assimilated, nor alluded to by neoliberalism and the society in which I live: "I am one of those who struggle to stay in history and space, of their ancestral roots."