The authorities removed a statue of explorer Christopher Columbus from a Main Street in Mexico City on Saturday. The decision comes after activists announced that they would take down the statue at a demonstration scheduled for Monday at the commemoration of Columbus ‘ arrival in America on October 12, 1492.
According to the Mexican Ministry of Culture, the monument has been removed for research and a possible restoration. But several groups of activists had previously called for a demonstration under the slogan “We will bring it down”, referring to the image of the explorer from Genoa.
Christopher Columbus was long presented as "the discoverer of America", but is now associated by some with the atrocities committed by Europeans against the indigenous population. Four statues of Franciscans, including the Spaniard Bartolomé de las Casas, have also been moved for restoration.
The mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, mentioned at a press conference that after restoration the monument might not be put back together again on the avenue where it was placed in 1877. “It might be worth thinking together about what Columbus stands for, especially for next year,” she said.
In 2021, Mexico commemorates the bicentenary of Mexican Independence and the 500th anniversary of the European invasion with the fall of Tenochtitlan, the former name of Mexico City under Aztec rule.
Mexican president Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, in a letter dated 2 October, demanded that the Vatican, as well as the Spanish crown and government, apologize to the indigenous peoples for the “most outrageous atrocities” during the Spanish conquest in 1521.
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The ORANFE IDIOT is lost.
Easy Big Fat Yeast Rolls for the gringos and cocos como ese pendejo hillbilly coco wanna be white. LOL
What? You mean the American gringos are not the root of all evil?
Wow! Spot on!
Christopher Columbus didn’t discover shit! This white boy lie has been perpetrated for centuries. The indigenous peoples of North and Central America already had their own cultures and were doing fine until they were set upon by Chris and his criminal enterprise. Then the Catholics came along to further heap atrocities upon the people.
When do the trials for crimes against humanity start??
Compared to some of shit these so-called conquerors and religious frauds heaped on these poor people (for centuries), Hitler was just a wannabe pussy!
For starters, put those demonic old queers in Rome on trial and clean out the untold riches hidden in the basement of the Vatican. Those riches would solve world hunger in a snap.
Columbus Day my ass.
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El Paya Jerry McHale ran to his white friend to have him say a good word for asswipe Frankie Olivo. He always does that, Juan. Pinche Paya has been playing you, bro.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that bars in Texas can reopen for in-person service next week — as long as their county governments choose to allow it.
All bars at SPI are open why? NO BALLS?
95% of Black People Voting for Trump?
Hell NO! not a single ONE but cocos just like that hillbilly maricon coco wanna be white will vote for el world pendejo trumpjoto
Race and ethnicity standards are determined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
They have decided that hillbilly coco wanna be white belongs to the lineage split from that of monkeys some 7 million years ago, origins and evolution of human meat-eating started here in the states when hillbillys started eating possums and squirrels and some rats.
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Now what? they think they're gringos where's their bow and arrows????
El trumpo hired them as border guards pinches indios mamones
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