English version - Hago un Llamado

Today I got out of bed with a thought. I remembered the song of America that says "cuando Dios hizo el edén pensó en América" (when God was creating Eden he was thinking in America) and at that moment I could not get off the couch, in a way I felt my Sunday was ruined. But after a couple of hours I just had to get out of it and I started writing this.

We leave in a crazy world, and not in a good way, and if I would write about that it would turn into a book and it would not be enough anyway. Therefore, I just want to dedicate this short article to our America.

I would like to believe that we were not designed to be the antagonist of this novel, even though stupidity has been humans motto for a long time from north to south, and vice versa, in the Americas.
 

I’ll be taking a few days off from Social network and try just to relax before coming back to it. But before I do that this citizen of the world, resident of the Americas, without any politic or economic influence, wants to pass a message to anyone that is Reading and listening, and that is NOT to the anti-leaders of our nations, to the politicians and lawmakers and business men and women that are so successful in their mediocrity. This is a message for those that follows them, those that have been tricked in this pile of bull. To open your eyes, to think more than just your personal benefit and priorities. To see that your needs are very similar to the person beside you. To use that in a movement that drives moving forward, putting aside culture, religion, skin color, among other things. If you, by any chance, are in politics then it does not matter if you are lefty or on the right side, or if you are part of the group in power or part of the opposition, just go back to basics and think what is the difference between right and wrong, why you were elected or why you started into politics, when you were an idealist and wanted to do good for the people. 

The anti-leaders from United States of America, Brazil, Peru, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Venezuela, Mexico, just to mention a few, Where some of them throughout the years have governed using brute force, oppression and keeping the education and health level as low as possible with the strategy that an ignorant and hungry nation can be controlled; without knowing that is a ticking bomb that will lead to a social, economical, humanitarian chaos.  Others, instead, have used “cold war”, intimidation, among other techniques, as a way to pressure those with “in-developed” economy, with less resources; obtaining the upper hand in the different agreements, while internally, in their own territory, have used “bubbles” and empty statements, creating ignorance and internal division as a Machiavellian strategy.

We are going through an era of terror, pacifist and violent protests; in an era where the consumption of resources are impacting our home in a negative matter, and climate change is a reality, leaving behind a big number of victims and impacting what the anti-leaders treasure the most, the finances… yet that is not enough to shake them up, but it should be for the rest of us to say “this is enough”.

I am only one person, without a clear view of what to do. Sadly, this article is not presenting a solution, perhaps because there is no single one, but a group of many. What I have is a vision, one that says that if each and everyone one of us starts putting “su grano de arena” (grain of sand), and we do it together, then we can build a beautiful beach, one that goes from NORTH TO SOUTH and VICE VERSA, and paint that great song into reality before it is too late:

"Cuando Dios hizo el Edén pensó en América". (When God was creating Eden, he was thinking in America). 

Carlos A.