The French edition of Marcelo Gullo‘s book, and the Spanish title as the slogan of a campaign in defense of Hispanidad in the Madrid metro
The political scientist Marcelo Gullo He is the author of a trilogy on the Spanish conquest and colonization, edited by sword (Group Planet), whose three volumes have been at the top of sales in the essay category in Spain: “Motherland” (2021), “Nothing to apologize for” (2022) y “What America owes to Spain” (2023).
Recently, these books were at the center of the controversy between Mexico and Spain. Within the framework of the diplomatic crossing between Claudia Sheinbaum, the new president of Mexico, and her Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchezdue to the exclusion of King Felipe VI of the inauguration ceremony of the new president -with the argument that she did not apologize for the Conquest of America-, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, president of the opposition Spanish Popular Party, said that I would send Sheinbaum Gullo’s book, Nothing to apologize for.
Perhaps Sheinbaum’s rudeness has a boomerang effect: that of rekindle in Spain pride in the work of American civilization and for that enormous cultural group that is Hispanicity which, among many other things, has made Spanish the second vehicular language in the world.
A sign of this rebound is the campaign – until now anonymous – launched in the cities of Madrid, Seville and Valencia on the occasion of October 12, in Spain, Columbus daywith posters in Metro stations with the message “Nothing to apologize for”, taken from the title of Marcelo Gullo’s book.
Nothing to apologize for, Marcelo Gullo’s book as the axis of a campaign for Columbus Day in the subways of Madrid, Seville and Valencia
The first poster was followed by another with the phrase, which also belongs to that essay: “What Spain has left in America is much more than what he took.”
The campaign was immediately interpreted by local media as a “response to the attack by the newly elected president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum”, as noted for example The Gazette..
A video was also circulated on social networks in which a large poster is seen hanging in front of the Royal Palace of Madrid with the same phrase: “Nothing to apologize for.” The video, to which artificial intelligence gives every appearance of reality, caused a great impact. It was later clarified: “This canvas is fake, but it deserves to be real.”
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An article in the Spanish media El Pespunte explained: “Nothing to apologize for’ is the title of a book written by the Argentine Marcelo Gullo Omodeo, in which defends the legacy of the Spanish Empire in the face of criticism about its colonial past. Gullo argues that, unlike other European colonial powers such as England or France, Spain was not responsible for the worst atrocities that are often associated with colonization, such as mass slavery or genocide.”
A sign hangs from the Royal Palace in Madrid. A montage to convey the message that, on Columbus Day, Spain has “Nothing to apologize for”
The first volume of Gullo’s trilogy was prefaced by Alfonso Guerra, former vice president of the Spanish Government (1982-1991, management of Felipe González), a prominent reference of a Spanish socialism very different from the current one. and a patriot, who understands that the same anti-Hispanism promoted in America through the distortion of history contributes today to giving support for nationalism in their country. Hence the subtitle of “Motherland”: “Dismantling the black legend from “Bartolomé de las Casas until Catalan separatism”. Guerra defines Gullo’s book as “a great plea against the defamation against Spain” and “a cry for brotherhood of all Latin American peoples.”
The second volume of the trilogy is the one that was now translated and published in France with the title: “Those who should ask for forgiveness” (Ed. L’Artilleur), that is, “Those who should ask for forgiveness”, and with a significant subtitle: “The Spanish black legend and the Anglo-Saxon hegemony”.
The review from FNAC, the iconic French bookstore chain, says: “In this exceptional book, Marcelo Gullo demonstrates that, in front of the ‘Court of history’ Spain was judged by biased judges and false witnesses and affirms, with evidence, that America, before 1492, was more like hell than paradise. For centuries, countries like Great Britain, Holland or the United States have demanded that Spain apologize for their alleged sins committed during the conquest of America when in reality it is those same nations that should do it because “They have blood on their hands.”
The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, greets Claudia Sheinbaum, then mayor of Mexico, in times of harmony, year 2019 (REUTERS/Henry Romero)
Unusually, despite being a best seller in Spain, None of the three volumes has been published in Latin America. A rejection that shows to what extent the local elites have adhered – by ideology, opportunism or mandate – to indigenism and the black legend that, as Gullo himself points out, are part of the hard core of political correctness, in the name of which progressivism feels authorized to censorship and cancellation.
The book, which is now published in French, is prefaced by Carmen Iglesias, director of the Royal Academy of History.
The Spanish and French version of a best seller that has not yet been published in Latin America
“To those who demand that Spain apologize They are not interested in the past, but in the future -says Gullo in Nothing to apologize for-And me too.” What “is in the heads of those who demand this assumption of guilt” is not a reconciliation of the peoples, but their separation, their enmity, and consequently the internal fragmentation and division of nations.
The book reviews the other conquests that were not as “bad” as the Spanish one, according to the Negrolegendary version, and concludes that “only one conquest is criticized: the Spanish conquest of America.” at the same time “bloody theocracies” are exalted that reigned in pre-Columbian America, presented, through cultural relativism and the myth of the noble savage, as communities living in harmony with themselves and nature, ignoring human sacrifice, cannibalism and the enslavement of entire peoples.
Also reserve the book a chapter to that left that “is recycled: from the Communist Party to the Sao Paulo Forum”. Twenty years after the creation of that area, in 1990, “the majority of its members managed to access power,” says Gullo. But when they did, he notes, “they applied a neoliberal economic policy not very different from the one they claimed to be fighting,” and, above all, “a cultural policy” that consisted of promoting Hispanophobia, indigenism and gender ideology, among other topics of fashionable “deconstruction.” And the demolition of the West, its foundations and values.
The political scientist and essayist Marcelo Gullo
To define indigenism, Gullo appeals to the Argentine historian Jorge Abelardo Ramos which he warned already in 1959, that it was not only “a sincere vindication of the trampled rights of the indigenous [sino] of a current that stimulates imperialism with the aim of raise new factors of division and dissociation on our already sufficiently divided continent.” Ramos denounced that the growing interest of foreign academics in studying pre-Columbian cultures “is aimed at hiding the fact that Latin America It is united by a Romance language linked to Western culture and that constitutes the main coagulating element of our vast unfinished country.”
It’s what pretends not to understand that “unemployed intellectual labor” after the fall of the Soviet Union” which Gullo’s book talks about and which today is dedicated to a “cultural demolition” that serves the interests of “international money imperialism”, according to the concept coined by Pope Pius XI, which the author cites.
Marcelo Gullo’s trilogy about the Spanish conquest and colonization of America, edited by Espasa (Grupo Planeta)
