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Albert Rose
The Madrid-Vicálvaro campus hosts this Thursday, September 30, the colloquium conference 'Black legend and Spanish geopolitics', starring the academic, analyst and consultant in International Relations, Marcelo Gullo. The central thread of the meeting will be his controversial book 'Motherland: Dismantling the black legend from Bartolomé de las Casas to Catalan separatism'.
The meeting is organized by Limes. Law, Borders and Migration Research Group of the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the URJC. Its director, Professor Ignacio Ruiz Rodríguez, also a speaker at the table, explains how the act arose: "Marcelo Gullo has had a dialectical confrontation with the Mexican president, López Obrador, around the idea that Spain has to apologize for the presence of colonists in America. Gullo proposes the opposite: Mexico should be thankful for how much the Spanish company developed on the land of what was New Spain allowed the liberation of the subjugated peoples”.
The table aims to serve as a meeting point between different opinions on the matter. For this reason, several experts are present: Santiago Armesilla Conde, Hasel Paris Álvarez, Ignacio Ruiz Rodríguez and Marcelo Gullo himself. The person in charge of moderating the meeting will be Rafael Maldonado de Guevara. “Experts from different ideologies participate at the table and each one of them is going to contribute their own vision of it, very close to the one that Gullo may have regarding the atrocious criticism of the black legend,” explains Ruiz Rodríguez.
The professor concludes that the participation of all those attendees who want to express their opinion and even initiate debates between the table and the audience is also expected. The meeting, which will be face-to-face, will take place on Thursday, September 30, from 11:00 a.m. to 13:00 p.m., in the Hall of Degrees of the Departmental Building of the Madrid-Vicálvaro Campus.