For more than four decades social science teachers have taught children that Maicao was founded by Colonel Rodolfo Morales and his sister Otilia Ramirez of June 29, 1926 around a checkpoint of the customs of which the first of the two was responsible. Based on this historical version the Mayor at the time in 1976 a splendid programme organized to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Foundation and those who were going to school learned in classes of the Professor Ramiro Choles than that strange word, 50th anniversary, it meant date that met 50 years of some event and commemoration is made on this date. In year 2.006 Fernandez de Mayor Daissy Hernandez organized a programme of great height to commemorate the 80 years of the city. Became a forum in which MEPs and representatives of the Governors participated different personalities, among them of the formerly large Magdalena Department. On that occasion the Cesar departmental Assembly gave recognition to Maicao due to the Permanent Exchange that holds North of the commercial capital of la Guajira Department. This year the number 82 anniversary should celebrate and, indeed, the House of culture has prepared a program to give this date the importance that it deserves, but there is a but.

Let’s see what is. The historian Luis Guillermo Burgos, a samarium devoted years to studying the history of la guajira and, especially, of Maicao, has dug and dug until you find historical documents where refers to Maicao. It is not uncommon that a historical document mention of Maicao-. For nothing. But it is his date: 1921. That data throws by land which has sustained the tradition in the sense of that the foundation of this land where Colombia and Venezuela meet (some say are separated) through border stripe would have been founded in 1926 or 1927 (not been determined with absolute accuracy).

It was a time dazzling and contradictory, full of lights and obscurities, with characters such as the mirando peak, the great exhibitor of the discourse on the dignity of man, and Rabelais, who with his Gargantua, mocked so-called medieval values, Cesare Borgia, and Lorenzo de Medicis. However, thanks to her, humanity fought for the freedom of conscious of itself, and this, with an intellectual energy, and a passion that struggled to overcome the dogmas, the cult of authority and Scholasticism had plunged to medieval Europe, and the tiredness and the abuse of ecclesiastical power takes you to its limitation. The Renaissance had a field of multiple application; Thus in the architecture monuments of antiquity is rediscovered, new manuscripts appear in the literature, and there is a passion for the old, a new taste for poetry and nature that already had preannounced since the 13th century. To this is added the discovery of the solar system of Copernicus and Galileo, the anatomy by Vesalius, the circulation of the blood by Harvey, and in sum, the affirmation of the scientific method than He had preludiado the school of Chartres. Political feudalism is exceeded, and appear first Nations. Italy was the first nation in where there were those changes, thanks to his regime’s political freedoms, its commercial development, the development of language and its Mediterranean position which allowed him to get in contact with the fabulous East from Marco Polo, Columbus, and all those who dared to break the pillars of Hercules, the impassable until that time limit. Politically, the cities lombardas wrested oversight power to the Church and he handed it over to the communes administered by boards of judges who were responsible before the citizens. So spread a cult to the constitutional Government, that although he had accomplishments, will pave the way for the emergence of tyrants, those figures who stand by the Renaissance it was a rebirth of the city Hellenic State; At this time he began the partnership of the State and capital, which would found capitalism, which still dominates us today, in the form more aggressive and comprehensive.

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