Abstract
Joaquín García Monge, educator, writer and editor of the renowned Latin American journal Repertorio Americano, gave a speech at the Monumento Nacional (National Monument) as one of the activities organized to commemorate the centennial of the Central American Independence, on September 15, 1921. The text of this discourse became an important reference for diverse social sectors, both from the political right and for the political left. The purpose of this article is to analyze the discourse thematically and those conditions that can explain its actuality during the late 20th Century and beginnings of the 21st.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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