Inventing History: An Iconoclastic Conception of Historical Memory

When the political needs of governments, parties, armed groups, etc., demand making up a past that justifies their specific present, respective organs often seek to propagate discourse permeates national social structure and allows memory causes violence be reinvented, through strong perversion history. In these situations, trend known as historical presentism tends emerge, i.e., malformation history knowledge in service totalitarian projects, such those Nazi Soviet regimes twentieth-century Europe, or identity-based nationalisms, sponsored by violent guerrillas, case FARC-EP Colombia. Two scenarios exemplify singular manifestations Europe Latin America are given.