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 peninsular spaniards, the right to direct and govern the patria destiny." (Enrique Flores Cano. 1987)

Challenges in the construction of the own history.

Mexicans need to decolonize the ancient past of Mexico. "The Anahuac discovery" is urgently required. We need to reread the sources with a different view. We need to reinvestigate our “ownours” history, we need to rethink and reinvent our true history. We need to dismantle the scaffolding of lies and half-truths that developed: first from the mexicas, then the spaniards during the 300 years of colony and finally the creoles in the last two hundred years of "independent life". During which they have made, in the official hispanic History, the biography of the colonizing State in which we live up to our days.

It is essential deeply knowing the philosophy, ethical and moral standards, that the old grandparents built over thousands of years, harmonious societies, fair and respectful of the values, principles and human rights, which are universal in time and space and reconnect them to the sound moral principles, ethical, mystical and social that in some way contemporary Mexicans live, especially the so-called "indigenous" and peasants.

"Every school child knows something about the colonial world. The great archaeological monuments serve as national symbols.

''There is a circumstantial pride over the past that somehow is assumed to be glorious, but it’s lived as a dead issue, a matter for specialists or an irresistible magnet to attract tourism. And, above all, it is presumed as something foreign, which happened here before, in the same place where we Mexicans live. The only link made is in the fact that we occupy the same territory in a different time, —they and us—. A historical link is not recognized, a continuity. It is thought that them were murdered —for some— or redeemed for others at the time of the spanish invasion. There would only remain ruins: some in stone and others alive. That past is accepted and is used as the past —of the territory—, but never in depth as —our—''