Author name: Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano

Of the Scribes of the Shadow and the Stripping of the Idols of Clay

And all of us, pawed over in the same mud

Of the Wells of Deceit and the Heir of Incendiary Rhetoric

Of Cardboard Martyrs and the Infiltration of the Machine-Gun Gallant

How a Bearded Hidalgo Sold Mirages for Gold and a Thirst for Blood to Prosperous Nations

Pride is the satisfaction and self-indulgence derived from contemplating one’s own virtues while holding others in contempt.

Victim and executioner of its own people and of an entire region