El síndrome del intervencionismo

• Autores: Víctor Kerber Palma
• Localización: Revista de humanidades: Tecnológico de Monterrey, ISSN 1405-4167, Nº. 12, 2002, págs. 37-46
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • The interventionist syndrome forms part of the Mexican culture. It is reflected in our never-ending fear of being invaded, penetrated and conditioned from outside. Consequently, it is both fruit and seed of our nationalism; it feeds off national pride and it feeds this pride back. Mexican destiny, according to the predominant liberal version, is a Hegelian destiny that is, therefore, inevitable. But there is a question that needs answering; how is it that, on the same doctrinal bases, three pre-Revolutionary governments promoted both the nationalization of the oil, the bank and the electrical industry, and later also induced their sale to foreign capital? It is now considered a debt historians have to rescue the best of the vision of the losers, the extremely conservative, pious Mexicans from the XIX century, who were thrown into the purgatory of our history. The truth is that the national conservationism was authentic; sustained on endogen roots; the conservatives and their opposition were the ones who had a clear notion of Mexico¿s vulnerability since its independence. It is sustained in this paper that the nationalism in Mexico was in effect born as a resistance to interventionism, but it was not really a natural consequence of the force that liberal thought acquired, on the contrary, the authentic endogen nationalism, anti-interventionist, and self-determinant came from those who were kicked out from our patriotic altars: the decimononic conservatives.