Por qué la América nuestra había llegado al estado actual

“Those of us who have read about the history of the Americas,  who have meditated more than once about it, from the time when  we acquired the first political notions and learned the first concepts about what this continent was like, its origin and its history, have found it very difficult to understand why our America has reached the present status; (…) why have we lived so estranged from each other; why have we lived so indifferently to those who many a time have been separated from us only by a river, or an imaginary line, or a mountain, or an inlet, when we all were essentially one and the same thing.”