Independence: Not For The People

INDEPENDENCE AS PROPHYLACTIC


  On this evening in 1821, a handful of gentlemen drew up the Declaration of Independence of Central America, which they solemnly signed the following morning.


The Declaration states, or more accurately confesses, that they had to declare independence without delay, 'to prevent the terrible consequences that would result should the people declare it themselves.'

Eduardo Galeano. 'Children Of The Days'