The director of the History and Anthropology School of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), teacher Luisa Navarro, pointed out that Dominican historians have distorted the image of the Father of the Homeland, Matías Ramón Mella, as a patriotic leader, and minimized the role that women played in the process of national independence.

Navarro issued his considerations during the deposit of a wreath made by the academy in the bust of Patricio Mella, to commemorate the 202 anniversary of his birth, which was headed by the rector of the institution, Dr. Iván Grullón Fernández.

The director wondered where the historians got that gala costume that represents Mella, if he only wore his military suit, why they distorted his identity as a mulatto Dominican man with curly hair because of the image of a man with clear eyes and hair. Lazio, like his wife, Josefa Brea, as if she were a woman of the upper class, when she was the daughter of poor parents.

Regretted the academic that still in the Dominican history books it is repeated the fact that Pedro Santana was the leader of the Battle of Las Carreras, when there is evidence that it was Mella, as well as that it is also said that it was the first ideologist of the National Army, if it can be confirmed that this role corresponds to the patrician.

He considered that although history is created as a symbol, and is being constructed in a creative way, the information should not be distorted, "because we know that Matías Ramón Mella established the fighting clubs in the Cibao, in which the peasants were organized. they integrated to the military fights (the calls Pambiches), that later that idea happened to Cuba, and created a method of guerrilla organization, that were used in some countries of Latin America.

The historian also criticized that men who have written Dominican history have macho attitudes, because the faithful and honest work developed by women like María Trinidad Sánchez (who was coordinator of La Trinitaria), Manuela Diez, Josefa Brea, Rosa Duarte is not highlighted. , among others, who gave everything for the Homeland.

In the act also participated a group of 35 teachers who attend a master's degree in Dominican History, taught at the headquarters of that house of high studies, to which the teacher Navarro suggested that when they read, they do between the lines and that they become a warrior of the history of his country, as was Mella and others who fought for Dominican citizenship.