{"id":8985,"date":"2026-02-27T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quakerspeak.com\/video\/el-pacifista-que-derroco-una-democracia-una-historia-de-smedley-butler\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:01:15","slug":"el-pacifista-que-derroco-una-democracia-una-historia-de-smedley-butler","status":"publish","type":"fpb_video","link":"https:\/\/quakerspeak.com\/es\/video\/el-pacifista-que-derroco-una-democracia-una-historia-de-smedley-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"El pacifista que derroc\u00f3 una democracia: Una historia de Smedley Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Pacifist Who Toppled a Democracy: A History of Smedley Butler\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/koaAE75afDU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p>Smedley Butler proven\u00eda de una s\u00f3lida familia cu\u00e1quera, por ambos lados de su \u00e1rbol geneal\u00f3gico; pero abandon\u00f3 el instituto cuando estall\u00f3 la Guerra Hispanoamericana y minti\u00f3 sobre su edad para poder alistarse en el Cuerpo de Marines como oficial. \u00abY a partir de ah\u00ed\u00bb, reflexiona Jonathan M. Katz, \u00absirvi\u00f3 en cada ocupaci\u00f3n, invasi\u00f3n [y] guerra en las que Estados Unidos particip\u00f3 desde 1898 hasta la v\u00edspera de la Segunda Guerra Mundial\u00bb. <\/p>\n\n<p>En este episodio, Katz \u2014autor de <em>Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America&#8217;s Empire<\/em>\u2014 profundiza en la enorme presencia de Butler en la historia del imperialismo en el hemisferio occidental. Esto incluye su papel en la ocupaci\u00f3n estadounidense de Hait\u00ed, donde oblig\u00f3 al gobierno democr\u00e1ticamente elegido a disolverse a punta de pistola, para luego instituir un programa nacional de trabajos forzados que fue, en esencia, la reintroducci\u00f3n de la esclavitud. <\/p>\n\n<p>Sin embargo, tras retirarse de los Marines, Butler empez\u00f3 a reconocer p\u00fablicamente las consecuencias de sus 33 a\u00f1os de carrera como \u00abun mat\u00f3n de alta categor\u00eda para las grandes empresas, para Wall Street y los banqueros\u00bb. Se convirti\u00f3 en un cr\u00edtico abierto del af\u00e1n de lucro que hab\u00eda detr\u00e1s del colonialismo respaldado por el ej\u00e9rcito y advirti\u00f3 a sus compatriotas estadounidenses sobre la amenaza inminente del fascismo. \u00abCreo que, si estuviera hoy aqu\u00ed, no tendr\u00eda ning\u00fan problema en reconocer al ICE\u00bb, dice Katz; las brutales actividades de los agentes federales en las calles de las ciudades estadounidenses le recuerdan vivamente la <em>gendarmer\u00eda<\/em> de Butler, reclutada entre la poblaci\u00f3n nativa haitiana.  <\/p>\n<div id=\"Transcripci\u00f3n-link-8985\" class=\"sh-link Transcripci\u00f3n-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('Transcripci\u00f3n', 8985, 'Mostrar transcripci\u00f3n y preguntas para el debate', 'Ocultar transcripci\u00f3n y preguntas para el debate'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"Transcripci\u00f3n-toggle-8985\">Mostrar transcripci\u00f3n y preguntas para el debate<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"Transcripci\u00f3n-content-8985\" class=\"sh-content Transcripci\u00f3n-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<h3>Recursos:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Suscr\u00edbete\" href=\"https:\/\/quakerspeak.com\/es\/suscribete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Suscr\u00edbete<\/a> a QuakerSpeak para no perderte nunca un v\u00eddeo<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\u201cQuakerSpeak\" href=\"https:\/\/fdsj.nl\/all-videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Consulta una lista<\/a> de todos los v\u00eddeos que hemos producido.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lee Friends Journal<\/a> para ver c\u00f3mo otros Amigos describen la esencia de la espiritualidad cu\u00e1quera<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pregunta para el debate:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00bfC\u00f3mo encaja la carrera de Smedley Butler con lo que sabemos de El cuaquerismo?<\/li>\n<li>Muchos cu\u00e1queros se han sentido llamados a luchar en guerras a pesar del testimonio de paz, por ejemplo, por la Uni\u00f3n en la Guerra Civil Americana. Aunque algunos fueron \u00abexpulsados de la reuni\u00f3n\u00bb, muchos no fueron expulsados de sus reuniones cu\u00e1queras, e incluso muchos fueron recibidos de nuevo a su regreso. \u00bfC\u00f3mo tratar\u00edamos a un cu\u00e1quero de nuestra comunidad que se sintiera llamado al servicio militar?  <\/li>\n<li>\u00bfC\u00f3mo crees que la educaci\u00f3n cu\u00e1quera de Smedley Butler influy\u00f3 en su cambio de conciencia al final de su vida?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Las opiniones expresadas en este v\u00eddeo son de los oradores y no reflejan necesariamente las opiniones de Friends Journal ni de sus colaboradores.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[244],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-8985","fpb_video","type-fpb_video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categoria","tag-historia-cuaquera"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>El pacifista que derroc\u00f3 una democracia: Una historia de Smedley Butler - QuakerSpeak<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/quakerspeak.com\/es\/video\/el-pacifista-que-derroco-una-democracia-una-historia-de-smedley-butler\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"El pacifista que derroc\u00f3 una democracia: Una historia de Smedley Butler - QuakerSpeak\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Smedley Butler proven\u00eda de una s\u00f3lida familia cu\u00e1quera, por ambos lados de su \u00e1rbol geneal\u00f3gico; 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