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Abstract
Abstract: This article's main interest is the link between the dramaturgy arts and contemporary politics. It proposes a deconstruction from the political anthropology perspective of a state ritual promoted since the Frente Amplio's first national government with respect to the so-called recent past. It specifically addresses a commemorative ritual called "Day of the Never Again" promoted by President Tabaré Vázquez in which he sought to reconvert the patriotic commemoration of the birth of the national hero José Artigas in a ritual of the nation's rebirth and reconciliation to end the still open wounds from the recent past represented as fratricidal sin. The underlying myths and the basic performance sequences that structure this commemorative ritual in the assembly of its four editions carried out between 2007 and 2011 are analyzed.