{"id":16139,"date":"2019-12-19T12:14:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T17:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/2019\/12\/19\/roque-dalton-el-salvador-will-be\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T12:14:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T17:14:21","slug":"roque-dalton-el-salvador-will-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2019\/12\/19\/roque-dalton-el-salvador-will-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Roque Dalton: \u2018El Salvador Will Be\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Roque Dalton (1935-1975) was a dynamic poet who was inspired by the revolutionary movements in Cuba and Latin America. His poetry captures a feel that anything is possible when the masses of working people and peasants are in motion. U.S. imperialist and neoliberal policies have spent decades tearing El Salvador apart, along with the rest of Central America. In the U.S., Salvadoran immigrants are vilified as the media portrays many, if not all, as hostile M13 gang members.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today, however, as students and workers are mobilizing across the region in opposition to their regimes and imperialism, a new generation of activists are finding their way in the class struggle. They will no doubt find their way to Roque Dalton. Dalton\u2019s work has inspired the imagination of those dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist system. What would he think about the prospects for revolution in a Latin America that is either in rebellion or a defensive fight against U.S.-backed coups?<\/em><\/p>\n

El Salvador Will Be<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

By ROQUE DALTON<\/strong><\/p>\n

El Salvador will be a beautiful
\nand without exception, a dignified country
\nwhen the working class and the people of the countryside
\nenrich it, bathe, powder and groom it,
\nwhen they cure the historical hangover
\nand add enough to it by a hundred fold
\nto reconstitute it
\nand start it moving along.<\/p>\n

The problem is that today El Salvador
\nhas a thousand incentives and a hundred thousand inequalities,
\ncancers, castoffs, dandruff, filth,
\nsores, fractures, weak knees and offensive breath.<\/p>\n

A few machetes will be given it
\nalso restored self-esteem, turpentine, penicillin,
\nbathrooms with toilets and toilets with seats,
\nkisses and gunpowder.<\/p>\n

Translated from the Spanish by Zo\u00eb Anglesey.<\/em><\/p>\n

From<\/em>\u00a0Poes\u00eda Elegida, Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1981.<\/em><\/p>\n

El Salvador ser\u00e1<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

El Salvador ser\u00e1 un lindo
\ny (sin exagerar) serio pa\u00eds
\ncuando la clase obrera y el campesinado
\nlo fertilicen lo peinen lo talqueen
\nle curen la goma historica
\nlo adecenten lo reconstituyan
\ny lo echen a andar.<\/p>\n

El problema es que hoy El Salvador
\ntiene como mil puyas y cien mil desniveles
\nquinimil callos y algunas postemillas
\nc\u00e1nceres c\u00e1scaras caspas shuquedades
\nllagas fracturas tembladeras tufos.<\/p>\n

Habr\u00e1 que darle un poco de machete
\nlija torno aguarr\u00e1s penicilina
\nba\u00f1os de asiento besos p\u00f3lvora.<\/p>\n

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Roque Dalton (1935-1975) was a dynamic poet who was inspired by the revolutionary movements in Cuba and Latin America. His poetry captures a feel that anything is possible when the masses of working people and peasants are in motion. U.S. imperialist and neoliberal policies have spent decades tearing El Salvador apart, along with the rest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13882114,"featured_media":14936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30822,27637],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-the-arts","category-latin-america"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t