The pessimistic interpretation of Hispano-American sociology

The historical cultural scenario of Spanish America from the time of the conquest in the 16th century to the present day in the 21st century is marked by the imprint left on its sociology by our ancestors of the Spanish peninsular conquistadors of the 16th century. In his essay The Pessimistic Interpretation of Hispanic American Sociology Augusto MIJARES offers his optimistic definition of Hispanic American sociology: Civilist tradition of deliberative municipal government of the colonial cabildos left behind by the Spanish peninsular conquistadors of the 16th century as opposed to the pessimistic one of some Hispanic American sociologists: Caudillista tradition of personalistic devotion and mechanical coercion. In this work a better definition more realistic and closer to the historical facts comprehensive of the weltanschauung of the conquistador and its influence on the successive rulers in Spanish America up to the 21st century is sustained. The permanent Heraclitean flow of colonial roots of a struggle of opposites in the processes of government of the nations of Latin America: an unceasing passage from caudillismo to civilismo and back.