A small party of the radical left, will propose on Tuesday the removal of the statue of Christopher Columbus in Barcelona, Spain, one of the most representative monuments of the city, because, according to them, exalts slavery and imperialism.
The statue 60 meters high, located along the Mediterranean sea, at the end of the promenade of the Rambla, opened in 1889 to celebrate the arrival of Columbus to Barcelona in 1493 to explain his discovery to the Catholic Kings of Spain.
“we Just have taught the friendly face of this person, but for example, in the diaries of Columbus, says that with 50 men can subdue all of them (the indians) and make them very good servants,” explained Josep Garganté of the independence party of the left CUP.
“There are certain figures that we should stop looking with the eyes of the colonists and look at them with the eyes of the oppressed (…) Columbus was a slaver,” added Garganté in an interview to a local television.
The figure of the genoese navigator is controversial. Praised by some as the discoverer of America, others remind us that its arrival heralded the beginning of the Spanish colonization, subjugation and slaughter of the indigenous populations.
Under the governments of the late Hugo Chávez and Cristina Fernández Kirchner, Venezuela, and Argentina withdrew monuments dedicated to Columbus and replaced by other paying homage to the indigenous resistance.
In his proposition, that will be presented this Tuesday to discuss the Friday, the CUP claims to also replace the symbolic statue, which you can climb to enjoy spectacular views of the city, an image that represents the indigenous resistance.
Also asked to declare working the 12 October, the fiesta nacional of spain, that recalls the arrival of Columbus to America in 1492. The proposition will be voted on Friday, in the plenum of the Barcelona city council, ruled from 2015 by the activist antidesahucios Ada Colau, an ally of the new party antiausteridad we Can.
AFP
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