HISPANIC AMERICA LOSES TWO GREAT UNIVERSAL FIGURES IN A YEAR

Don Simón Díaz and Don Gabriel García Márquez

    I remember and I do a direct quote from the Belgian writer in her book Memoirs of Hadrian "Maguerite Yourcenar, that once found in a letter of Flaubert, this unforgettable phrase: «The gods were gone, and Christ was not yet , since Cicero and Marcus Aurelius was one time when man was alone»" ...

    On February 19^th this year 2014, I felt a great sadness in my heart , when contemplating starting a figure lifted Latin American music : The Venezuelan Don Simón Díaz , ( affectionately called by Venezuelan Uncle Simon ) , what really hurt me (even more than his physical absence) it is not giving the farewell she deserved, due a political crisis in Venezuela , which seems to have space only for itself, and insists drown all other scenarios of  creativity and cultural expressions in this  country.

    Who would have thought that the typical music of the plains regions in the lyrics of " Caballo Viejo " could ascend to Olympus of universality , giving us shows the versatility and beauty of this rhythm until then cataloged local.

    I return to the idea , remembering , as you I did it in two preceding paragraphs , when on April 18^th, I find the death of Don Gabriel García Márquez, a Colombian writer and famous Spanish writer, who is consecrated through his masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, so inevitably let out a sigh of regret upon hearing the news.

    Quote’s Marguerite writer came unconsciously, and an eerie feeling came to my mind when I ask: Are we the latins it being alone?, that was the impact that caused to me, to fall into that were two universal men who leave us, the same year, which were representatives of the twentieth century, and so far this tour in the XXI century, in my humble opinion, I sense a cultural decline in Hispanic America.

    What happens to us Hispanic people?, We remain mired in a deep sleep , we are not able to overcome hunger , misery and poverty , even being in the region with more natural resources in the world. I don’t think that the aforementioned problems have not existed before, but fall into an empty period, comparable only to the time when “The gods were gone, and Christ was not yet” , if not encourage the media to flourish manifestations of culture in all its splendor.

Meanwhile Mother America and Hispanic nations cry with theirs  two sisters Colombia and Venezuela the lost their children, waiting to get the wonders of their new offspring.