OPEN LETTER TO SAN JUAN - Hogueras de San Juan

22 June, 2016

We reproduce with pleasure the open letter addressed to Mr. San Juan, signed by Loreto Losada Vales, Meiga de Honor of the HOGUERAS-1985 and former member of the Board of Directors of the San Juan Bonfire Commission.

"Dear Saint John:

It is not my intention to be irreverent, but today I would like to listen to you as a Friend.

You know that incoherent rebellion that triggered my adolescent years, those fleeting years in which I moved against the current fighting for utopias that today I see funny.

But no my friend, I do not pretend to talk about me or what I saw with the years but if I wanted to say the most important thing I learned:

The meaning of LEARNING, FREEDOM AND RESPECT : It has given me and until today I continue to offer life through people from different environments, people who even believe they have nothing to teach.

Although the most important thing I learned so far, among others, are:

. LEVEL OF STUDIES IS NOT ALWAYS SYNONYM OF CULTURAL CAPITAL.

. THE BAD MANAGEMENT OF THE POWER DOES NOT GIVE YOU WEALTH ONLY BY THE CONTRARY ENVIRONMENT YOU IN POVERTY.

. THERE IS NO LIE WITHOUT TRUTH OR TRUTH THAT CAN NOT BE SHOWN.

. THE HANDLING FEATURES CONFUSION AND SEIZURE IN TRAITION.

But no Friend, this is not the time to talk about my experiences or experiences, my way is still long.

Today I would like to tell you the "HISTORY OF A TRAIN CALLED HOGUERAS DE SAN JUAN" but for lack of space and time I will only remember you:

Its exit station was the FERNANDO MACÍAS STREET-PRINCIPLES OF THE 60's, ¿machinists? Unconventional Little Dreamers, Fuel? Concerns Give Life to a Dream. In this, its first station of exit and without return, the machinists celebrated it igniting a small Bonfire in your Night.

In the passage between stations celebrated with joy acts that attracted CULTURE without forgetting TRADITIONS .

With the arrival at each new station, while a new car was engaged, the first small bonfire was transformed into the SAN JUAN FAILURE .

I have to tell you, my friend, that the journeys between stations were not always "comfortable", yet the new passengers were always grateful to enjoy the trip, full of small bonfires that accompanied the FAILURE OF SAN JUAN in your Night.

The Train became famous, even its name crossed borders and in Station 2015 it was "baptized" again like: HOGUERAS DE SAN JUAN FEAST OF INTERNATIONAL INTEREST TOURISM .

On the way from Station 2015 to Station 2016, a Tide approached him trying to make everything he found his own.

Friend, how do you like this train? You'll still be in it, will not you?

You know, if I were a poet I would write to you:

"Ay, my friend,

That the fault on this night of you

No longer laughs tongues of fire

But she cries tears of the Bitter Sea.

And I would ask you, my friend

That with the calm that leaves the bustle of raindrops

Listen to the cries of silence that recur in your Divine Help "

Well, San Juan, it's time for me to say goodbye and I wish you with all my heart a very Happy Day.

HAPPY SAN JUAN TO ALL.