Sunday, September 11, 2011
El Cañero: Sociedad de Escritores y Artistas de la Provincia La Altagracia hace importantes anuncios
El Cañero: Sociedad de Escritores y Artistas de la Provincia La Altagracia hace importantes anuncios
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Juan Pablo Duarte, The Fore Father of Quisqueya
JUAN PABLO DUARTE
(26 de enero, 1813 – 15 de Julio, 1776)
PADRE DE LA PATRIA
Por las siguientes razones:
1838 -1844
Como dominicano-español:
Como dominicano-español:
• Fundador y Presidente de la Sociedad Secreta “La Trinitaria”
• Autor del “Juramento Trinitario”, que abogaba por:
o la separación del gobierno haitiano
o una república independiente de toda dominación extranjera
o una Patria libre y soberana en la Isla de Santo Domingo y no en la Isla de Haití
o una república denominada “República Dominicana” y no “República Haitiana”
1844 – 1776
Como quisqueyano:
• Encendió la chispa de la lucha por la restauración de la independencia de la república en 1861
o Con un mensaje a los quisqueyanos
o Buscando apoyo de otras naciones para la restauración
o Organizando los pasos para completar la identidad nacional propia
• Su presencia en 1864 garantizó el respaldo del pueblo al ejército restaurador
o Su nombre y su persona sirvieron para avivar los ideales trinitarios
o Dejó a sus allegados el legado de Quisqueya
EL LEGADO DE JUAN PABLO DUARTE:
Contrario a lo que se ha estado enseñando desde que se declaró la independencia en 1844, Juan Pablo Duarte nunca dijo que la nación se llamaría República Dominicana.
Es posible que en el 1844 él no tuviera un nombre propio para la nación y esto así, porque en el mismo juramento trinitario se especificaba que “…Mientras tanto, en lo adelante seremos reconocidos los trinitarios con las palabras sacramentales de Dios, Patria y Libertad…”
Podemos fijarnos que dice “…Mientras tanto…”, por lo que se puede conjeturar que no se tenía el nombre de la nación o la identidad nacional que se iba a adoptar.
Juan Pablo Duarte no es el forjador de la “dominicanidad”.
Eso le tocó ser al Rey de España en 1620 (Felipe III), quien mediante Cédula Real le dio la identidad de dominicanos a los españoles de la Isla de Santo Domingo.
El nombre que Duarte escogiera para la nación fue Quisqueya, es probable que durante su exilio en la selva venezolana, antes de que la república fuera anexada a España por Pedro Santana, pues en su mensaje a los trinitarios en 1861 cuando supo de la anexión decía:
“Quisqueyanos, sonó ya la hora de vengar tantos siglos de ultraje; el que a Dios y a la patria desdora, que de oprobio y blandón se amortaje. No más cruz que la cruz quisqueyana, que da honor y placer el llevarla; pero el vil que prefiera la hispana, que se vaya al sepulcro a ostentarla”.
Por las ambiciones (que nunca han cesado) de caudillos, ese mensaje llegó escasamente a oídos de los pocos trinitarios leales a Duarte en una situación donde ganar la guerra de restauración de la república era más importante que continuar la obra patria.
Los más cercanos a Duarte entonces, Benito Monción, Ulises Francisco Espaillat y su hermano; Mella, que falleció por enfermedad el 4 de junio de 1864; El General Gregorio Luperón, entre otros, fueron los que pudieron escuchar de la boca del Padre de la Patria alusiones a esto.
Sin embargo se propagó entre amigos el deseo de Duarte de llamar a la nación Quisqueya y de que el pueblo adoptara la identidad nacional quisqueyana reemplazando la hispana de “dominicana”, aunque continuara la denominación de la república relacionada con el nombre de la Isla de Santo Domingo.
Tanto Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, como Matías Ramón Mella, fueron los próceres y discípulos de Duarte más fieles a los principios trinitarios, pero los ideales por los cuales tenemos una república dominicana libre e independiente es por quien fue proclamado “Padre de la Patria” en 1844 a su llegada a la ciudad de Santo Domingo.
La proclamación hecha por Ulises Heureaux de nombrar tres padres de la patria no debe ser tomada en cuenta, sin que esto disminuya la importancia de Sánchez y Mella. “Lilís” utilizaba la marcha de “La Marsellesa” en lugar del Himno Nacional en sus ceremonias, porque éste último no había sido adoptado por la Constitución o por no gustarle la lírica de dicho himno.
Juan Pablo Duarte fue el forjador de nuestra identidad nacional quisqueyana y el ejemplo de honradez, sacrificio, patriotismo (no nacionalismo, como quieren poner muchos) y moralidad.
Juan Pablo Duarte es el Padre de la Patria
¡Loor a Duarte!
¡Viva la República Dominicana de Quisqueya!
-Cosme E. Pérez, 26 de enero, 2011
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Dominican Republic is Quisqueya
The name of the Dominican Republic is Quisqueya. Dominican is just its denominative for a republic in the Island of Santo Domingo, as it was decided in 1506 by the Spanish Crown, who in 1621 gave the nick name of Dominicans to it's people as "second class Spanish citizens".
Quisqueya was the name for the country suggested by Juan Pablo Duarte when he wrote:
-"Quisqueyans, the hour has already tolled
to end so many centuries of abuses;
The one whom God and the Homeland unlove,
With the blanket of death in shame should be covered.
No more cross than the Quisqueyan one,
Which gives honor and pleasure to carry;
But for the one who preferes the Hispanic,
To the sepulchre is the right place to wear it."
-Juan Pablo Duarte (Our translation)
Original:
-"Quisqueyanos, sonó ya la hora
de vengar tantos siglos de infamia;
El que a Dios y a su patria desdora,
Que de oprobio y blandón se amortaje.
No más cruz que la cruz quisqueyana,
Que da honor y placer el llevarla;
Pero el vil que prefiera la hispana,
Que se vaya al sepulcro a ostentarla".
-Juan Pablo Duarte
The National Anthem of the country has its roots with the above statement, which was the one sparking the flame for the Restoration of the Republic when President Pedro Santana gave it to Spain in 1861. When the fight for the restoration was being lost, Duarte came in 1864 and his presence gave the necessary spiritual and trust for the people to support the restoration army.
Duarte shared his ideas with few of the patriots, mainly, Espaillat, who became President in 1876 (the year Duarte died in Venezuela) and ordered the National Anthem and the return of the remains of Duarte to his homeland. Lira de Quisqueya was the group that gathered those working to recoup the name of Quisqueya, which had been rediculized by intellectuals, historians, writers and politicians since the year 1525 (and still in the present), but the people adore this name and is proud to be called Quisqueyan.
Dominican is a nick name imposed by Spain to their citizens born in the Island of Santo Domingo since 1621. Dominican is a combinated voice composed of two Latin terms: Domini, meaning "God"; and Can, meaning "Dog" or "Sheep", that is to say, "God's servant".
Dominican is also the proper gentility for the people of the Island of Dominica.
Quisqueya is not a common name and as a country, the Dominican republic occupying the Eastern part of the Island, it is an exclusive and proper name, given to by the Father of the Homeland, Juan Pablo Duarte. A name which roots come from lejends told by Anacaona ("Golden Flower"), Queen of Jaragua and Maguana at the beginning of the XVI Century.
The Constitution of Haiti and the Agency for Standarization of Geographical Names of the United States of America must stop identifying the Island of Santo Domingo with other names, such as Haiti and Hispaniola, respectively, for the Republic of Haiti has signed treaties admitting that the name of the Island is Santo Domingo and must honor those treaties; while the United States of America, for the reason that the two countries (Haiti and Quisqueya) sharing the ownership of the Island have two different names for it, has given it the same name Columbus baptized the Island in 1492, but that name was never accepted by Spain. If that name were accepted, then the inhabitants of this island would called themselfs "Spaniards" too.
This is what this blog is all about: to give the name of Quisqueya deserved by the Dominican Republic's people and to have only one name, instead of three, for the Island of Santo Domingo.
Those corrections (not changes) will contribute to the clarification of history, geography and gramma in education and politics regarding centuries of confusion by historians, writers and politicians.
Please join us at http://www.quisqueya.name/ and be part of history in the making.
Quisqueya was the name for the country suggested by Juan Pablo Duarte when he wrote:
-"Quisqueyans, the hour has already tolled
to end so many centuries of abuses;
The one whom God and the Homeland unlove,
With the blanket of death in shame should be covered.
No more cross than the Quisqueyan one,
Which gives honor and pleasure to carry;
But for the one who preferes the Hispanic,
To the sepulchre is the right place to wear it."
-Juan Pablo Duarte (Our translation)
Original:
-"Quisqueyanos, sonó ya la hora
de vengar tantos siglos de infamia;
El que a Dios y a su patria desdora,
Que de oprobio y blandón se amortaje.
No más cruz que la cruz quisqueyana,
Que da honor y placer el llevarla;
Pero el vil que prefiera la hispana,
Que se vaya al sepulcro a ostentarla".
-Juan Pablo Duarte
The National Anthem of the country has its roots with the above statement, which was the one sparking the flame for the Restoration of the Republic when President Pedro Santana gave it to Spain in 1861. When the fight for the restoration was being lost, Duarte came in 1864 and his presence gave the necessary spiritual and trust for the people to support the restoration army.
Duarte shared his ideas with few of the patriots, mainly, Espaillat, who became President in 1876 (the year Duarte died in Venezuela) and ordered the National Anthem and the return of the remains of Duarte to his homeland. Lira de Quisqueya was the group that gathered those working to recoup the name of Quisqueya, which had been rediculized by intellectuals, historians, writers and politicians since the year 1525 (and still in the present), but the people adore this name and is proud to be called Quisqueyan.
Dominican is a nick name imposed by Spain to their citizens born in the Island of Santo Domingo since 1621. Dominican is a combinated voice composed of two Latin terms: Domini, meaning "God"; and Can, meaning "Dog" or "Sheep", that is to say, "God's servant".
Dominican is also the proper gentility for the people of the Island of Dominica.
Quisqueya is not a common name and as a country, the Dominican republic occupying the Eastern part of the Island, it is an exclusive and proper name, given to by the Father of the Homeland, Juan Pablo Duarte. A name which roots come from lejends told by Anacaona ("Golden Flower"), Queen of Jaragua and Maguana at the beginning of the XVI Century.
The Constitution of Haiti and the Agency for Standarization of Geographical Names of the United States of America must stop identifying the Island of Santo Domingo with other names, such as Haiti and Hispaniola, respectively, for the Republic of Haiti has signed treaties admitting that the name of the Island is Santo Domingo and must honor those treaties; while the United States of America, for the reason that the two countries (Haiti and Quisqueya) sharing the ownership of the Island have two different names for it, has given it the same name Columbus baptized the Island in 1492, but that name was never accepted by Spain. If that name were accepted, then the inhabitants of this island would called themselfs "Spaniards" too.
This is what this blog is all about: to give the name of Quisqueya deserved by the Dominican Republic's people and to have only one name, instead of three, for the Island of Santo Domingo.
Those corrections (not changes) will contribute to the clarification of history, geography and gramma in education and politics regarding centuries of confusion by historians, writers and politicians.
Please join us at http://www.quisqueya.name/ and be part of history in the making.
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