PANELS OF HELL (EXTRACT)
Who remembers the octogenarian swine in his sedan chair the one who
first stole
Nicaragua the country the government the land for himself
and for his family
the first
one who saw Nicaragua as a business his own business
the first one who in Nicaragua
established the business of slaves the
exploitation and selling of slaves
the first
of the usurious foreign bankers and financiers in Nicaragua
the one who
first brought to Nicaragua his genocidal dogs
to guard over his minerals
the one who
first killed in Nicaragua ‘two million’ Indians (2,000,000)
the first
one who installed his dynasty in Nicaragua
the first
of the first dynasty in Nicaragua continued by his daughter and
his son-in-law and his grandchildren
tyrant usufructuaries of the Empire
who in Nicaragua today remembers the worst of all the Spanish
conquerors
of America and his murderous descendants?
All of them are submerged in the dung heap of History
What became of the cold paranoid filibuster robber of countries
the
ill-famed adventurer from Tennessee gone bust in Sonora
ill-adapted
in California who very nearly stole Nicaragua
from the
democrats and legitimists or Liberals and Conservatives
who amongst
themselves were killing each other to exploit
the Nicaraguan people
the first North American to see Nicaragua the country the
government
the land as a subsidiary business to
North American business
the first imperialist racist North American pro-slaver who tried
in
Nicaragua to introduce the black slave trade importing the
slavery of
the slave States of the South of North America
through the
elimination of Nicaragua’s Indians and mestizos
but could
get nowhere with the people of Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Honduras El Salvador and Guatemala
the first North American of the South or the North the East or
the West
who brought his dogs to Nicaragua and thugs or
mercenary
animals enlisted in New York and New Orleans
and San Francisco California
the first agent of the thieving bankers of Frisco competitors of
the
usurious bankers of Manhattan concessionaires of the
inter-oceanic
Transit of foreign passengers through Nicaragua
the first North American arsonist destroyer of Nicaraguan
cities who
would have reduced them all to ashes and left them
in ruins
and sown the land with wooden crosses and scattered
cemeteries
and common graves before handing it over empty
to his
pro-slaver filibusters but could get nowhere with the
resistance
of the people of Nicaragua Costa Rica Honduras El Salvador
and Guatemala
the first for us of the models of North American imperialism
without a
mask or with a mask in person or if not through an
intermediary
but in any case the model for the North American
invaders
interveners ambassadors swindlers mediators and
for the
North Americanizing dealers and businessmen and
traffickers
of the Nicaraguan patrimony-peddling bourgeoisie
the first of the first North American military occupation
of
Nicaragua never really discontinued rather immediately continued
by the Conservative and Liberal
oligarchies and from 1936 to the
19th of July 1979 by the proconsular
family of the pentagonal dynasty
enthroned on Tiscapa Hill by
the Yankee Empire
who today is aware in Nicaragua of the worst of all the filibusters of
America—admired
by Truman—and of his murderous successors?
All of them are at the bottom of the latrines of History
José Coronel Urtecho
Translation by John Lyons