PINE Iturrieta ELIAS Don Cecilio
ask to speak against those who ordered their expulsion, sure of his reasons ...
University autonomy has been the result of many sacrifices. Even the status of Bolivar to ensure the progress of the chairs without interference from governments, was sufficient to prevent the bosses of the day respected, yesterday and today. In a row will see a shocking case in this connection that is victim to one of our leading intellectuals: Cecilio Acosta. Some of this episode should be rescued, though perhaps not all.
In 1854 the country was shaken by an epidemic of cholera, but also at the rise of subversive movements. Tired the indolence of the government, and wasted words to which the president amateurs without offering even a solution to the problems left by his brother José Tadeo and increased by the succession, the Conservatives are merged with the Liberals in a common front mediocre against dictatorship. The merger results in armed movements that do not reach a happy ending, but also in reactions of teachers and a group of students from the faculty demand the abandonment of educational projects, budget cuts and the general prostration of the Central University . The increase in tension causes the President José Gregorio Monagas go to a law promulgated on May 7, 1849, which prohibited the provision of university chairs for people disaffected to the government. Reviving the regulation to take the cloister to Cecilio Acosta, professor in the areas of Universal Law and Political Economy. There are no complaints about its performance, does his job satisfaction and students respect their teachers, but the teacher does not save ink to criticize the government in the newspapers. Not involved in secret meetings against Shift mandonería or cries figure in urban areas, but write what you think about the country's crisis. Accordingly, the boss calls to his acolytes in the alma mater to remove the bad seed. The calls for the government house for assisting him in solve a little problem called Cecilio Acosta. On his reputation for decent and weighted teacher, but also for the excellence of his pen, has many readers in the press of the city. Is not it a problem worthy of attention? Urgent
The authorities would request seems excessive, but the boss tells them to implement it without stopping at an explanation. Is not it also a question of patriotism, asks the bossy to dismiss and to send them under military escort to their rooms. After deliberation of urgency, made quietly in private homes, the Governing Board of the Central University of Venezuela meets August 16, 1854 to please José Gregorio Monagas. No point arguments, without a word of justification, because he had not, in the minutes of the meeting, the Board declared vacant the aforementioned chairs and ordered the establishment of a decree at the gates of the institution to which the community learns expulsion of Mr. Acosta, who was denied the right to argue on his behalf before the rector. Accompanied by a couple of colleagues and a small group of his disciples, for the rest prefer to ignore the matter to avoid the wrath of the famous Lancer, Mr. Cecilio ask to speak against those who ordered their expulsion sure the strength of their reasons and the absence of arguments servants of the president, but they refuse to listen. Nature
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Among other things, the teacher expelled want to know the reasons which led the authorities to remove the chairs program of Universal Law and Political Economy, to be processed without interference from 1836 and students had sufficient courses would be disrupted and whose significance could hardly raise any objections. It was a matter of intellectual nature should determine, writes in a trade, but also a disservice to the disciples who had the right to follow the thoughts without interruptions that did not rely on the proven incompetence of each. Respond even repeated their roles that the injured forwards, while urging employees of the goal to prevent the disclosure of which, due to his orders and wishes of a general illiterate on is just a stranger in the house know. But also in the workshops of the press, because the government has put pressure to prevent the publication of his writings.
Today no one remembers the name of the obsequious and regrettable Central University officials running the expulsion of Cecilio Acosta. Nor has one memory of those who support the teacher in that crucial time, because they are actually very few. In July 1881, the death of the remarkable intellectual the institution sends a representation of three teachers to their funerals, but do not attend for fear of reprisals from the Liberal Party and alienated Yellow Guzmán Blanco, who professed aversion to the Goths who can read and write, even if they are on the road cemetery. Let them stir into oblivion they deserve.
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