The Jamaican Letter. Record of genocide and analysis of the frustrated dream of freedom

Abstract

We believe that the Charter of Jamaica is the central document of the Bolivarian dream because it was drafted in the midst of wars of independence and because it preludes the political future of mixed America. Here we will show that the inventory of the genocide has fallen short if it has only been referred since the Conquest and also, secondly, that the political analysis of Simon Bolivar, in 1815, has all its validity and urgency. José Carlos Mariátegui, the great Peruvian thinker, had already written, at the beginning of the twentieth century, that we had changed Spanish feudalism to Creole and encomendero for tyranny.

The Charter of Jamaica is a historical, political and literary document to which we give a capital relevance in the life and work of Simón Bolívar.

And it has value for us as a scholarly text, as a political manifesto that also helps the scholar of the life of the liberator to understand his own political and personal evolution. In this essay we have guided by the guidelines expressed in the second part of this brief that has to do with the inventory of the genocide and the analysis of the possible political evolution of Indoamerica.