El anciano, decía esto, porque recién se había montado en el poder un Rey Zamuro muy aclamado, porque tenía aspecto de ser grande, muy bien hablado y conquistador de las masas, sobre todo de los rapaces. El anciano del Tepuy no paraba de advertir que los de su especie no son del todo espléndidos. Detrás de toda la opulencia y lo buenos que parezcan ser, los carroñeros tienen una naturaleza acostumbrada a la podredumbre. ¡Nadie vio venir el peligro! Aunque las Señales de Precaución estaban al la vista.

     ¡Ah! Pero yo, viejo como estoy, siguió el anciano defendiendo su retórica , he visto bandadas pasar sobre mi cabeza, de estas aves carroñeras que ponen trampas, que matan, que se comen lo que otros cazan. Es una fatalidad, ¡No me oyeron!

     La audiencia quedó silente. Un murmullo se escuchaba a lo lejos. Todos conocen lo agudo del ojo de las águilas cenizas. Pues eso nos ayudó a mirar como otros tepuyes entraron en desgracia. El movimiento arrasador del que nos habló el anciano se veía a lo lejos. Todos comenzamos a temblar, a mirarnos, a fraguar un plan. No había tiempo para despedidas. Cada quien como pudo tomó algo de bastimento y voló muy alto, a distintos y recónditos tepuyes, montañas, planicies.

     Hoy, desde un imponente y altísimo lugar de la Patagonia, les cuento, que sé de buenas fuentes que van y vienen, que mi Tepuy tibio y adornado con toda clase de favores del cielo: de cascadas, del Salto más grande del mundo, de la flora y fauna más exótica que mis ojos hayan visto, ya no es más lo que solía ser cuando yo era un aguilucho.

     Las señales estaban dadas. Y nosotros, inexpertos, embelesados de una opulencia que no era real, no pudimos mirar más allá de nuestro pico. Y eso nos costó que nuestro hermoso hogar está hoy repleto de abandono y tristeza por doquier.

Una vez un sabio Plateado dijo: "Huyan de un país en donde un mismo hombre ejerza todos los poderes. Es un país de esclavos". Simón Bolívar

      In conference, the huge silver eagles, those who know the most about everything, in whom true wisdom accumulates, spoke about a rather surprising subject. They spoke about the signs of imminent danger that once after another loomed around the Tepuy, our home.

      I, an eagle chick, who was just thrown into the wind a short time ago, had to stop to analyze what they were saying, in order to understand the depth of their words. What I managed to hear was more or less this:

      Ashy gentlemen, the oldest spoke . As I have been warning you, the destruction of our plateau is coming, like the greatest hurricane that any of you have imagined. It is not possible that an elite of eagles such as ourselves is being intimidated by a small-time Zamuro king.

      But interrupts an enthusiastic eagle, we were present when he was elected as ruler of the entire region. Also, this Tepui is our strength. As much as they want to go, our barricade would not allow them.

      Little one, answers the elder ash, I'm afraid to say that once someone like that king zamuro is appointed alderman he forgets the limits. For him there will be no strength, he is making an army of other birds of prey to end everything in their path. This is what I meant on your election day. You, nor anyone in the jungle, could see the signs behind that great speech, that opulence of your kind.

      The old man, said this, because a highly acclaimed King Zamuro had just risen to power, because he looked to be great, very well spoken and conqueror of the masses, especially of the raptors. The elder of the Tepuy kept noticing that his kind are not entirely splendid. Behind all the opulence and how good they seem to be, scavengers have a nature used to rot. No one saw the danger coming! Although the Warning Signs were in sight.

      Ah! But I, old as I am, the old man continued defending his rhetoric , I have seen flocks pass over my head, of these scavenger birds that set traps, that kill, that eat what others hunt. It's a fatality, they didn't hear me!

      The audience was silent. A murmur could be heard in the distance. Everyone knows the sharpness of the ash eagles eye. Well, that helped us to see how other tepuis fell into disgrace. The sweeping movement the old man told us about was visible in the distance. We all began to tremble, to look at each other, to hatch a plan. There was no time for goodbyes. Everyone, as best they could, took some food and flew very high, to different and remote tepuis, mountains, plains.

      Today, from an imposing and very high place in Patagonia, I tell you, that I know from good sources that come and go, that my Tepuy warm and adorned with all kinds of favors from heaven: waterfalls, the largest waterfall in the world, the most exotic flora and fauna that my eyes have seen, it is no longer what it used to be when I was an eaglet.

      The signals were given. And we, inexperienced, enraptured by an opulence that was not real, could not look beyond our peak. And that cost us that our beautiful home today is full of abandonment and sadness everywhere.

Once a Silver sage said: "Flee from a country where the same man exercises all powers. It is a country of slaves." Simon Bolivar

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