Posted on 06/30/2021 6:52:50 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The figure of the European explorer, after whom Colombia is named, was dragged from its plinth with ropes and vandalised.
The demonstration marked two months since the start of a nationwide protest movement calling for social reform.
Indigenous activists see Columbus as a symbol of colonialism and oppression.
The Columbus statue is the latest to be pulled from its pedestal as part of the anti-government protests which have been sweeping through the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
“Indigenous”. Not too many anthropologists among this bunch.
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"...while Black Lives Matter claim to oppose police abuse and racism around the world, the organization is simultaneously a great supporter of some of the world’s most brutal and repressive dictators. In particular, the founders of BLM have been staunch supporters and allies of the sanguinary Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro and of the Castro regime in Cuba.
In December 2015 Black Lives Matter sent a delegation, headed by the organization’s co-founder, Opal Tometi, to act as observers during the Venezuelan Parliamentary elections of that year. The Maduro regime did not allow accreditation for observers from the Organization of American States, the UN, or the EU. The only accredited observers where from regimes and organizations friendly to the “revolutionary cause.”
Later that same month Tometi penned an article where she espouses, word for word, the regime’s standard text for international propaganda.
“In these last 17 years, we have witnessed the Bolivarian Revolution champion participatory democracy and construct a fair, transparent election system recognized as among the best in the world ,” wrote Tometi about one of the world’s most corrupt voting systems in history.
Earlier in 2015 Maduro was given an award at the Afro-descenndants Summit” held in Harlem. Maduro was invited at the behest of the Black Lives Matter leadership. ..."
[Venezuelan President] Nicolas Maduro with Opal Tometi (right), co-founder
of Black Lives Matter, in Harlem, Manhattan, December 2015.
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Also in 2015...
Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.
Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb 11 to 14.
It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.
Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. ..."
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2020...
Russia has pledged to boost military and economic co-operation with Venezuela to help the South American nation deal with growing US pressure.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s comments came after his meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas.
Mr Lavrov said any attempts to remove Mr Maduro’s government by force were unacceptable.
The US accuses Mr Maduro of leading a corrupt and brutal regime. ...”
“Russia is a key ally of Venezuela, lending it billions of dollars and backing its oil industry and military.”
Thank you President Obama.
And they aren’t even Hispanic in the least bit.
In every Latin American nation there is always a massive divide between the indigenous populations and Spanish/Hispanic populations.
Obama, Chavez, and Maduro (note the "soul-bro" handshake)
Symbol of Western Civilization, which they hate. Remember “Hi ho, western civ’s got to go!”
(60’s radical chant)
They want the human sacrifice back.
They got it back, in spades. It’s called Abortion.
I guess they better change the name of the country then.
If Columbus had never sailed the Ocean Blue, the New World would have still been discovered by Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500.
True!
Or Magallanes after him.
Not meaning to be picky
It’s 80s coined by Jesse Jackson
Not 1960s
Despite movie portrayals that sort of thing was not on campuses yet
I was there
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