"When he arrived in Santiago del Estero the first expedition of liberation, that of General Ocampo, sent by the iron hand of Mariano Moreno, Dorrego, Buenos Aires then a callow officer was in charge of training with a squad northern countrywomen . The lever was easy and peaceful farming village that contributed to the freedom of our country with limited meat and strong for their children and contributed so effectively ... that is cool about the history of the country the fame of those soldiers, brave in battle, strong face of death, tireless in the marches, skilled riders on the horses, intelligent learning the art of war ... In the incorporation of the latest draft was to do four additional calls to integrate the squares, as in the first and was rejected mandatory ninety percent of the boys than twenty years in the province of Santiago del Estero, after forty years progress, have children who do not work, and not as their grandparents, for war, but are useless for the same parody of the war. "Homero Manzi
in a speech late 1930.
" counted Fermín Chávez recalled that the late 1937 and early 1938 Santiago del Estero walked two writers who had to do with literature and reality Argentina: Roberto Arlt Homero Manzi, the former as editor of Now and the second special envoy Review. Homero Manzione gives us this story:
"One day Wednesday on a Añatuya. I find the news that the field is Añatuya Roberto Arlt, special envoy for a newspaper in the capital to make santiagueño chronic pain. Also Arlt warn me that is sick and beaten by the fever is at a distant ranch. Take a car and long after him. I find the four leagues in a place of stay "13" owned by my father and Luis attended by Manzione, my brother. " Manzi and Arlt
spoke of the social picture that unfolded in his eyes:
"I was impressed by his desolate expression - writes Homer - His bitterness against the indifference of the area happy. His disillusionment with politicians villagers from the government or the opposition are distant from the true man of the campaign santiagueña. His anger toward the writers in the country to turn away from this reality and the unknown. " He adds Manzione - so he signed his notes - "Roberto Arlt. Male life. Journalist realities. Novelist bitter sense and human values \u200b\u200bthe drama that surrounds it and appreciate the angst of all. The citizen. In the Chinese. From the old . The monkey. Dog. Cow. The horse. Of the hen. "
Homer
that a few miles from the capital Santiago del Estero are people who have died of hunger or thirst. He said that people leave the countryside and will caravan to the cities, fleeing drought and desolation. "And to tell all - adds Manzione - Roberto Arlt eyes accustomed to the contemplation of the most terrible pains get wet like a child. And I made an oath. It is necessary that our story is terrible, implacable. Bitter. Almost sinister. It is necessary for readers to vomit with disgust and shame at the reality of Santiago del Estero, a province forgotten by the oligarchy ... "( Now , 13/12/1937). (...)
Referring to the water problem and the need for reservoirs in the region, Arlt uses this phrase of hers: "It is true that the Nile is a river gentleman, his floods occur periodically in the second half year, every year ... In Santiago del Estero, nor the sweet, nor are gentlemans Salado. "
worth taking those texts in which we approach the less known Arlt. His occasional partner, more politicized - as militant was FORGE - delved into the roots of the deformation Argentina and wrote: "The kids are sad. Sad and sick. This is the same. Children are sad only when they are sick. In the north would have to found a political party whose only agenda was this: Make kids laugh. "
(...)" We are told - once held - that there is something untouchable among the various links in the economy : big business, especially when it comes to foreign shareholders, and therefore it is necessary to create the opposite mentality, national mentality, than against that argument simply says that them must go to the bitch that bore those shareholders! "
When particular character stands out for its own gravity, so it is impossible to dip into the waters of silence try to remember him for his most docile and not really the cause itching. Mitre did with San Martín, set aside any mention of his political project (bad for him and his kind) and cut in military marble works. With Homero Manzi happens the same, carefully avoids political commitment for national movement (politically incorrect for the establishment and its corollary, the media) and it reduces the character folk night in Buenos Aires: The Tango, or Worse, the character of some tangos. The wretch who dies between copetin, women and horse racing.
But again and again, from FORGE first, and from the Peronist then subjecting the country denounced British imperialism's complicity with men Alvear Regime, theft facing the country, especially the provinces as his, because - said Homer - "Santiago del Estero is a poor province, but an impoverished province. "
expelled from the Faculty of Law, Professor of Literature exonerated, silent as a poet, discriminated by the rebel, anti-imperialist radicalism. Homero Manzione Prestera Nicholas was transformed into "cursed", but the poet in him had "played a trick on the system."
In 1947, a few years before his departure, radicalism gorilla expels him from their ranks due to their relationship with the Peronist movement. In one of his last days, his friend Hugo del Carril had to sing at the Olivos residence and asked him what song, big? Manzi asked for paper and pencil, and an hour later gave two milongas, one for the General, one for Evita, that are playing them. The tears ran Peron: the author knew he was dying. "
José Luis Muñoz Azpiri (h), in" Homero Manzi: The Man and His Times "(courtesy of The Ortiba ).
At 60 years of your game, my memory for you, Homer.
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