Matar a la madre patria

Matar a la madre patria tells the story of the construction of the Latin American republics from a very particular point of view: anti-Spanishism, a well-known perspective, but which until this book had not been fully covered. The scene of this homicide is not the physical field of the battle, but the minds of the most important thinkers and politicians of the Latin American 19th century: Alberdi, Bello, Bolívar, Echeverría, Lastarria, Miranda or Sarmiento. This work does not narrate a voluntarily Gatopardesca revolt, but a total revolution that seeks to erase the Spanish heritage from all the symbolic places in which Creole society understood itself: politics, economy, race and religion. Anti-Spanishism is the cause and program of independence to become the temporal axis through which the newly created republics expand. It is also the story of a passion that is weakening and disappearing with the passing of the century, but, at the same time, it is the confirmation of an identity trauma that, still in the most pro-Spanish decades of the 20th and 21st centuries, will serve to explain, justify and lose responsibility for Republican failure.