Leyla ZUNIGA
statue du General Francisco
Morazán
Our world has not had students for years. Universities have not always existed. Schools are a recent invention and the times when a relationship existed between a master and his student are not very old. This goes back to the birthplace of the great historical religions such as Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism and also the time of the philosophers of Greece where a few privileged scholars knew the art of deciphering life and with magic tricks, with myths as an explanation and with the logos at the center of reasoning and willingness to understand, they invented a meaning to the entire outside world.
The disciples were species of sponges that soaked up all kinds of knowledge that came to them, but the poor do not go out of their role as slave and it did not become a disciple if you belonged to the caste religious, political or military .
In this emerging knowledge, the sun travels east to west, the earth was flat and if you reach the edge of the world, you could fall into the abyss, the gods were children of women who gave birth to centaurs with human face and body animal, the moon was a pretext for lovers and a round spot painted a god to enlighten men. Knowledge was a privilege of a tiny minority heritage and ignorance of the vast majority.
Education served to exploit and masters treated their slaves like beasts of burden and everything would have continued as if they had not come to open our eyes.
The Middle Ages laid hands on knowledge and carried them in the convents. You could not become a scholar if your family did not have enough property to pay a teacher or a teacher.
The French Revolution brought us the Enlightenment. It was that education became secular. Men should be free of ignorance, prejudice, fear and religious dogmas that petrified minds. With Marxism, God became a fairy tale taught us explain that the sun revolved around the earth and its land, created by an obscure oracle, remained motionless in the center Aristotelian.
Who has implemented these values in our country and Central America? It
General Francisco Morazan, but not what you can see General on the Grand Place in Tegucigalpa because this one is the one rich families in Honduras and the Armed Forces and Police members who bludgeon the people honored with bouquets and a hypocritical veneration. That makes sense: they love the stone, marble and backwardness.
These people want a Morazan impassive, motionless, remaining there without moving, without saying a word, without uttering a word, to be silent, which is silent.
is why they can not tolerate the band of militants loyal to Morazan, these fighters who are demonstrating in the streets, protesting and want to save this country the rich, the gringos and the Armed Forces have made a model of backwardness and ignorance.
The Church itself, in its time, condemned the General Morazan, because he had deprived of his property. The Church sought the sky, but the land much more interested. There were even a nun in Guatemala, told me she spoke with the angels and that they, at night, he wrote notes of white paper then sowed it in the cloisters and convents on the notes he had written: "Whoever kills Morazan gain directly Heaven without going through the lobby of the Purgatory. "
Do you think Morazan have hugged the Cardinal after it has lent its support to the coup?
No, because Morazan, at the time, angered the church and now the real fighters loyal to Morazan continue to irritate the Church.
Why am I telling you this?
As teachers, we teach mathematics, natural science, philosophy, history, sociology, forestry, agronomy, physics, English, but more importantly, you have taught us that the country must defend it in the street, in the struggles in protest marches and in dreams, he must be free from the shackles of a system that placing on the numbers and despises people. We've taught dignity.
no question of bowing his head.
It is not easy to pass his exams today. Your parents have made great sacrifices and you, you did not disappoint. You made a major step forward, many stray way, others with great qualities, do not find the opportunity to put them into practice.
What you see before you this festive decor, your parents sitting there in this room and you are about to receive your diploma and your teachers and their Sunday best this festive ... That boys and girls is the dream, is the culmination of hard school exercises, review the hardships, long hours of study, your poorly ironed school uniforms and nights of anxiety of your parents who have both struggled to raise the money they requested.
All this is a drop of reality, this is a place where there is joy, it's a block party.
Because after today there will be a Saturday, there will be a tomorrow and there is a path ahead.
You have reached halfway, but the road continues. The university is there waiting for you. Keep studying. There are few places for work, but it's always a place for creativity.
Have a decent life regardless of where you will find; illuminate roads by your conduct. Be headlights that give the correct orientation; that your dreams do not get bogged down in individualism and more families struggle to vote, fight for your country.
To future accountants, I say that 2 plus 2 should never do 5 not more than 100 over 100 should be 20, regardless of the company where you work, be supportive of your brothers and do not manufacture false accounts because sooner or later life passes the bill.
To future agronomists, I say: if you do not obey orders to plant corn or beans with fish genes, remember that this most important thing is to produce and to be useful, but it is a even higher priority to ensure the country's food security. And I add that nobody is obliged to obey anyone if this involves obedience to lose his dignity to a human being, whatever.
I express special gratitude to your teachers, they are the sculptors of your professional destiny, somehow responsible for your successes and your failures rests with the training that the school has given you. It
Therefore I urge them to ensure that the development of good professional level and attention to their students the fundamentals underlying our duty as teachers. I wish to express my gratitude to parents, those parents who supported us with patience. These parents understand that we have suffered insults and calumnies of communication media that promote the interests of the rich. These media had bet that we would not be until the end of the school year. They received a lesson.
Parents, teachers, students, let us be attentive to the social reality, to life, basically. Here he has been given to live, here it is given us to dream, to hope, that we are given to fight. Let us be careful because the country and homeland, sometimes we call it, let us be attentive.
Be alert, saying Jesus and Jesus was right, because as was well stated by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda: "High are the stars at night and sleep Morazan."
Translated by Manuel Colinas Balbona for Le Grand Soir
Tegucigalpa on December 13 2010. Diversity in Resistance Movement (MDR) today commemorated the first year since the assassination of human rights defender Walter Trochez, which happened Dec. 13, 2009, at the hands of groups cleaning and prophylaxis State social, headed at that time by the dictator and de facto president Roberto Michelleti Bath. 
