Oriental Republic of Uruguay. Name of a state that today oppresses a people who were once the cradle of South American federalism, a people born in a territory of constant international disputes who have always claimed their autonomy and freedom. Fighters of the "Oriental revolution" inspired by the greatest political revolution in history, the American Revolution.
How did we go from being a people embraced by the values of autonomy, freedom, and rebellion against international powers such as the Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian, or Porteño, to being a decadent, spiritually gray, Frenchified people and a laboratory for international powers in the region? The answer to this question lies in the transformation of our own patriotic identity, when we stopped being "Orientales" and became "Uruguayans".
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Our change of identity is deeply due to the hegemonic power of the putrid, statist, and globalist Colorado Party in the history of the so-called Oriental Republic of Uruguay. To begin with, our current national identity is forged in Montevideo centralism. Intellectual technocrat doctors locked in a privileged office in Montevideo, trying to completely run a country they did not know, backed by the cowardly and traitorous to the homeland Fructuoso Rivera.
Our national identity is unfortunately forged from the triumph of the egocentric cosmopolitanism of Montevideo over the free spirit of rural communities. Montevideo unitarism that persists to this day, where true decentralization and autonomy of the people are replaced by bureaucratic offices run by thieving chieftains and spiritless office workers called "intendencias."
