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Juan Bosch Letter Haitian about three great intellectuals of the time , in 1943.
Havana , June 14, 1943 .
My dear Demorizi Emilio Rodr?guez , H?ctor Ram?n Marrero Inch?ustegui and Aristy :
TOMORROW WILL YOU think, and before they return to the country I want to write a few lines that are perhaps the last to occur of the Dominican case as a Dominican . I'm not saying that one day return to the topic , but I will because so many mental and psychological distance from my native country as a man could do in Alaska.
First, thanks for the light company that have given me today , the man concerned grateful as trade ideas, because she never has occurred that indescribable thrill when voice , in tone, in the words of a friend who has ceased to be long memories will warn of a site where one was happy. Perhaps to my joy , I was never happy in the Dominican Republic , and as a human being and as a writer and as a citizen , but instead suffered greatly in all these conditions .
Today I also suffered ... and from my meeting with you I have taken a painful conclusion , and that is: the tragedy of my country has permeated far beyond where it was possible to conceive : The dictatorship has come to form an ideological basis that it seems Dominican naturally in the air and will cost greatly overcome, if they can ever overcome . I do not mean facts relating to a particular person , do not talk about that Dominicans feel more or less identified with Trujillo , defend or attack his regime, to maintain a particular idea about the limited success of the current political situation in Santo Domingo, no, my dear friends : I talk about a transformation of the national mentality that is actually incompatible with those principles of human society in which men and the people who believe with firm faith during times best in the world , by which the guides of mankind have suffered and died , suffered and sacrificed . I mean the mental and moral attitude of you - and therefore the best part of my people - in a case that touches us all : the Haitian .
Before proceeding I wish to remind you that there is a play of mine , scattered throughout our area , which has been written for the sole stimulus forged my love for the Dominican people . I mean my stories . Neither the desire to make money or to get them a reputation which allowed me one day win political or economic position or any bastard purpose gave rise to these stories . You are writers and they know that when you start typing , when you do like us , sincere, loyally carries no other purpose than to express a distressing and oppressive inner restlessness . So , there's my work to defend myself if someone says now or in the future I'm a bad Dominican . I speak , therefore, entitled to claim that I hear as the lesser evil of the sons of my land .
I have heard you speak , especially Emilio and Marrero , almost hatred towards Haitians , and I have wondered how it is possible to love one and despise the people outside , how is possible to love one's children while hates his neighbor's children as well, just because they are children of others. I think you have not thought about the right of a human being, whether Haitian or Chinese , to live with at least one being essential for life is not an unbearable burden , that you point Haitians considered less than animals , because pigs , cows , dogs do not deny you the right to live ...
But I also - and I am not mistaken - that you suffer a confusion , that you have left the trial they have been deflected by those in Haiti and the Dominican Republic both peoples used for their personal advantage . Because that's what happens , my friends. If I may have to explain : The Dominican people and the Haitian people have lived since the discovery until today - or since they formed to date - equally subject in general terms. In the case no matter Santo Domingo has a mass less poor and less ignorant . There is no fundamental difference between the state of misery and ignorance of a Haitian and a Dominican , if both are measured , not by what they have acquired goods and knowledge , but by what they lack to acquire still justly called , humans satisfied and proud of it . The Haitian people are a little poorer , and because of that circumstance , fighting hunger, which is more serious than you can imagine someone who has not suffered themselves, their children and their ancestors , seeks to circumvent controls Dominican and crosses the border , if the case were reversed, would the Dominican who illegally emigrate to Haiti . The Haitian is thus more to be pitied than the Dominican , in order of their misery deserves more to fight for it, we try to remove it from its status beast. None of you would be able to strike with the foot who came to his doors for shelter or bread : and if they do not like men , they can not do as citizens.
Now, and the status of both peoples is related , because both suffer , and also relate those in Santo Domingo as in Haiti exploit the people , accumulate millions , depriving others of the right to speak not to report their abuse , the right to organize politically , to not fight their privileges , the right to be worthy to throw on the floor no monuments of unworthiness . There is no fundamental difference between Dominicans and Haitians in the mass; There is no fundamental difference between Dominicans and Haitians of the ruling class .
But just as men of the people in both countries have a common interest - that of achieving their freedom to access all child welfare woman deserves and needs - in the ruling classes of Haiti and Santo Domingo there are clashes of interest, because both want for themselves the greatest wealth. The people are equally subject , the ruling classes are competitors . Trujillo and everything he represents as exploiting minority want the wealth of the island to another; Lescot and everything he represents as exploiting minority , too. Then one and another - each other , rather - use their respective peoples that they serve as shock troops : this troop him to struggle for the winner plus their increased power. Deceive both the people with the mirage of intransigent nationalism is not love to own land but the strange hatred , and especially craving the total power. And if the purest and the best among those being intellectuals, people who have learned to distinguish the truth in the mire of lies duped and end up falling for that lie, end up forgetting that the highest duty for more cults is to serve conscious or unconscious of an exploiting minority , predatory and unscrupulous , but in the service of the common man , is Haitian or Dominican Bolivia .
When Haitian diplomats here or there do work that you consider harmful to the Dominican Republic , you know what they are doing , even if they believe in good faith that they are proceeding as patriots ? As they are simply serving the interests of the minority that is now chaired by Lescot like yesterday it was about Vincent . And when intellectuals write - as it has done Marrero of Total motu proprio as he said, forgetting that there is no longer room for free will in the world - Haiti counter items are serving unconsciously - but serving - to those who exploit the people Dominican and treat him as an enemy militarily conquered . No, my friends ... Come out of your obfuscation . Our duty as Dominicans who are part of humanity is to defend the Haitian people from their exploiters , with equal ardor that his own Dominican people . Do not confuse with the Dominican Republic Trujillo or Lescot with Haiti. You yourselves say , when they say Lescot came to power aided by Trujillo and now fights it. Trujillo also brought to power Lescot and now attacks him. Is that both have conflicting interests , as opposed are those of each of their respective peoples and of mankind.
Our duty is now fighting for the freedom of our people and fight for the freedom of the Haitian people . When thereof and on this side of the border , the men have a house , books , medicines , clothes, food in abundance, when we are all Haitians and Dominicans , rich and educated and healthy , there will be conflicts between the children of Duarte and Toussaint , because neither these go looking , plagued by hunger, Dominican lands in what a miserable banana harvest necessary to their livelihood , and those eyes will have to return to a country of origin , language and culture different , unless to do so with the intention of increasing their knowledge of the land and the people who live it.
That feeling of manly indignation that encourages respect for Haiti now , volv?moslo against which enslaves and exploits the Dominicans , against which , with the pressure of his almost total power , change the feelings of all Dominicans , the best feelings our , forcing us to abandon the gift of friendship, the discretion, the proper assessment of everything that breathes in the world . And then summon in are Haitians brothers and let's help them be free also from their exploiters, they , like us, can build a prosperous country , educated , happy, in which his best virtues , its best traditions flourish with the same spontaneity that we all wish for nuestras.Hay be able to distinguish who is the real enemy and not forget that the right to live is universal for individuals and peoples. I know that you know this, that you, like me, aspire to a better country, a country that can rub shoulders with the most advanced of the globe. And there 's another way to achieve the respect of all rights , which if violated in Santo Domingo today should not take to long ofuscarnos to be violated by us in different places.
I believe in you So I suffered. I believe in you until you ache failure Emilio Marrero showed the piece of paper that I wrote with the intention of benefit and non- disturbing or by action or omission to Emilio . In all I think, all I want and I have faith his clear judgment . So I have suffered this afternoon.
But the future is to one day see each other's arms, in the middle of a world free of oppressors and prejudice , a world fit Haitians and Dominicans , and in which all who have the duty to be better we will be fighting together against the misery and ignorance of all men on earth .
Drop me as brother and keep me for that .
Juan Bosch