On July 5, 2020, the day after the Americans celebrated the 224th anniversary of their declaration of independence, a small, excited crowd, in Baltimore, debunked the statue of Christopher Columbus. What did these activists blame the Genoese navigator? His courage? His audacity? His vision? His taste for study? His entrepreneurial spirit? No doubt not: it is probable that these young vandals did not make the prior effort to read a complete biography of the "admiral of the oceanic sea" of the kingdom of Castile.
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Will they continue their action by going in procession to Bogota to demand that the Colombians rename their country? No, because there is a capital closer, theirs, where these little soldiers of the politically correct will be able, at less risk, to quench their thirst for historical deconstruction. Why shouldn't they demand to rename the city and the state of Washington while they are there? The general, founder of their Republic, did he not possess, throughout
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