The manifest destination of the Paseo Bandera - La Tercera

There is a famous painting by John Gast in which the goddess Columbia carries the light of civilization from the East (luminous, European and white), to the West (dark, Latin and mestizo) of a United States in full colonial expansion. It is the representation of the doctrine of the Manifest Destiny. Justification -phrases, in the background - for forms of imposition of a model that sustains its value in voluntarism rather than in the facts.And i…