Hernán Soto Mistral was in many ways a forward to changes and approaches that now seem natural indispensable and often urgent. Essential Christian spirituality was defined as a supporter of transformations profound: the need for land reform, real Americanism, respect for indigenous people and mestizos, the love of children and the oppressed. Issue was concerned about the education and culture to serve the people.
should try to know her better, beyond convention and darkness.
Their sense of belonging to the pop world was undeniable. In a letter to a Mexican friend confided: "... I owe to the generous protection aristocracy: its defense when she campaigned against my appointment to a high school, but the class in which I am, I hope that the more I love and heart is the working class. "
had a clear opinion about the place that should be of recognized workers in society. When in 1925 he was invited to participate in the National Women's Council conditioned its acceptance tasty that it involved the workers' societies, so that they reflect the reality of social classes in Chile: "The working class can not be less than half representatives at a meeting either, covering half our territory, as our guts and bones. The other classes are a kind of golden skin that covers it. "
A stance that added other elements of identity that were completed, as the essential quality of villagers, the small valley cut in the aridity of the hills where he was born and spent his early years, near La Serena. "We the people of this area of \u200b\u200bElqui, miners or farmers at the same time. In the valley, the man took upon himself the mine, because the mountains surrounding us everywhere and no way to ignore it: the woman worked in the valley. Before feminism village and legal reforms, fifty years before, we've been there in a mountain cliffs of the work of women become customary. Water girl I've seen women at midnight in our clear night, the vineyard and the orchard, I have seen him do completely the harvest, I have worked with them in the so-called 'stripping peach 'before the machine stoner; have done their syrups, its Uvat and endless sweets taken from the beautiful English family business. "
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Through the eyes and the memory of his village, Gabriela could imagine and try to understand the world. His deep roots in Latin America was beyond particularism and political definitions. Speaking to the board of the Pan American Union in Washington, in 1946, shortly after "Stockholm that," as sometimes to refer to the Nobel Prize, said, "I am not a patriot nor a Pan Am drugging with greatness of continent. I've known him almost entirely from Canada to Tierra del Fuego, I have eaten at the best and the worst tables I have scattered in the flesh itself a kind of continental limo. And I dare say, without fear of looking like a phenomenon, poverty in Central America as important as the Indian fueguino and black nudity of any tropical song to me as tropical burning them. " Gabriela
followed the trail of José Martí in Our America and the vision of Francisco Bilbao, who saw the future of Latin America as a land of promise for humanity united, democratic and committed to the ideals liberators. Gabriela claimed authenticity and not copy, imitation and originality and not see that one of the main risks was in the U.S.. Ardently supported the struggle against the American invaders Sandino of Nicaragua and even called the young Latin Americans to defend with arms the hopeless cause for the infinite disproportion between the adversaries, which Sandino and his "crazy little army" had only with his courage to fight for dignity and justice.
In 1922, Gabriela published The cry, which can be viewed as a compendium of ideas in Latin America, which imagines the continent as a great hope: "America and only America. What intoxication such a future, What future, what vast kingdom for greater freedom and excellence! ". The overwhelmed by financial and industrial power the United States, for its power and influence. It is not derived from a hatred of Americans but rather a reproach to our own carelessness and weakness. "I hate the Yankee? No! We are winning, we are rolling our fault, our languor torrid our Indian fatalism. We are breaking apart at the hands of some of its virtues and vices of our race. Why do you hate them? We hate what in us makes us vulnerable to the steel pin and gold to his will and his wealth. " When finished, call to direct all activities towards the unification of America, motivated by "the language that God gave him and the pain that gives the North."
Latin American Unity
His belief in the need and urgency for the unity of Latin America has not abandoned her. And it was more specific: "We must unify our homelands in the interior, through an education that is transmuted into national consciousness and distribution of welfare that we become absolute balance, and we must unite our countries into a rhythm addressed a Pythagorean bit, thanks to which these twenty areas without shock move freely and also works a beauty ... We ambition is still obscure and confusing, but that comes rolling down the stream from the Platonic archetypes through feverish face and suffered from Bolivar where we utopia come true square edge. "
From adolescence, Gabriela Mistral had social concerns that were heightened by reading, research and contact with the reality of public education. After the stay in Mexico was decisive. Joaquín Edwards Bello remembers in Paris on official business, "absorbed dreamed of democracy, land distribution, with the fate of Puerto Rico and Nicaragua." And just one of the texts to support the exploits of Sandino, Gabriela wrote: "... convincing me that I walk by America giddy days when women say no, but children also have to have to talk politics, because it would be (evil policy) the delivery of the wealth of our peoples The estates of clenched fists that prevents saving a decent and division of the land, the old school does not give jobs to poor children and gives the average professional specialty, the old pure sour Jacobinism that denies freedom of religion who know civilized countries, foreign influences and with absolute shamelessness naked before our rulers. "
His stay in Mexico, among 1922 and 1924, invited by the Minister of Education, Jose Vasconcelos, and where he returned many times, changed his life. The distribution of land became a permanent concerns. Landlordism was understood that a central problem for Latin America, long before it was put in the center of the political agenda. In 1954, when he came second and last time in Chile, asked about the progress of land reform, without knowing (or knowing) that was not among the concerns of the government headed by Carlos Ibanez del Campo. In Mexico also was an increased awareness of the situation to the detriment of indigenous and mestizo character of the continent, stresses in his work, from a sort of revelation that appears on their known lines: "In the field of Mitla, a day of cicadas, the sun, run / I bent down a well and wine / an Indian to hold me over water / and my head as a result was within his palms. / drank what I drank / was your face with my face / and in a flash I knew / meat Mitla be my caste. " In the "Hymns" of his book Tala has been even a replacement of the Judeo-Christian roots of his work by Indian mysticism, which are the Sun, the Earth Cordillera and divinities. Report of fascism
Gabriela and was twenty-six When the First World War in Europe, a previously unimaginable carnage. Lived after the time of the great revolutionary wave that began in 1917 Russian revolution, the capitalist counter-marked by fascism in Italy, Portugal and Romania, since early 1930, the unstoppable rise of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany. Gabriela Mistral was among the first who warned the fascist danger. At some point refused to be consul in an Italian city while Mussolini ruled. In the English civil war supported the Republican cause and donated to the Basque children, displaced by the attack of the fascists, the copyright of his book Tala. In a Paul eulogy of Torriente, Cuban communist youth volunteer in the English Republican troops, killed in combat, which emphasizes the heroism and generosity, and concluded that his death be in vain "if this satanic world iron beast color color pardinegro they want us dissolves like a nightmare before curdling. " Franco detested and never again set foot on English soil. Those were times of social upheaval and political monster that spread to Asia and Africa and not left unscathed in Latin America.
World War II, the Holocaust, concentration camps and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were aware of the term of an era, and the dawning of new hope and the threat of enormous danger. After the war, the cause of peace became crucial. The threat of a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union by the United States became a real threat denounced by intellectuals, scientists and artists who accused Western propaganda tools of the communism. Gabriela Mistral contributed to "curse word", a text that was known throughout the world: "There are words that speak louder suppressed precisely because of the flushing and exile and the 'peace' is jumping to the people who are deaf or distracted because after all, Christians astray from all branches, from Catholic to Quaker soon have to remember as the ravings of more insistent that the word in the Gospels is it precisely that word crossed out in the newspapers, the word stuck in a corner, this monosyllable us is barred like a dirty word. Is the word for excellence and that, repeatedly, a presence in the sacred Scriptures as an obsession. We must continue vocéandola day to day, so that some of the divine commission afloat even as a poor cork on the prevailing paganism ... Digásmola each day where we are, where we go, until it takes the body and create a 'peace activism 'which fill the air thick and dirty and be cleansed. "
"A huge revolutionary"
Gabriela was, wrote the painter Roberto Matta, "a huge revolution in the human sense of the term." It was not Marxist or less anarchist, but did not object to the profound transformations. Much praised highly critical of communism and others, such as anti-religious policy and the measures that threatened the family. He denounced the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939 and supported the peace policy of the USSR during the second postwar period. Likewise rejected the anti-Communist policy of Gonzalez Videla in Chile.
Was close to the main Social Christian leaders such as Eduardo Frei and Radomiro Tomic, who was a friend and godmother, but it is doubtful that had been defined as a Democrat. She wished a church to serve the poor and once was defined as an individual community, meaning he was not opposed to the collective work and community and an equitable distribution of wealth with respect immovable by the individual, their uniqueness and their right to govern its decisions. He wanted, he asserted, to keep "the greatest amount of individuality in a collectivist rule." Its rationale was basically ethical and Christian, in a unique religious, Catholic initially, then Buddhist and theosophical leanings, to return to Catholicism marked by the permanent initial reading of the Bible and admiration for St. Francis of Assisi. As Clotaire Blest, in his last days Gabriela was Secular Franciscan Order Minor.
reflection of Gabriela Mistral, for over sixty years on the youth deserves to be remembered: "Look for today's youth about these things: a social order in which class differences do not continue to correspond to the name and money but the proven ability of the trade or profession, ie the actual values. All of them want to eliminate the scourge of poverty that has been blight on the noble face of the Latin. Everyone wants that the work is not a matter of chance and pain, disordered chance of overexertion. And if you wanted to see on these youths the crust of a crass materialism which did not show the above, the truth is that she is looking for a new spirituality. "
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