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Indigenous groups across Latin America mark Columbus Day with protests
Demonstrators celebrate on the base of a stone obelisk torn down
INDIGENOUS Purepecha communities in Mexico marked Columbus Day on Monday by blocking roads into their territories, while police clashed with Mapuche demonstrators in Chile.
The day — known as Dia de la Raza, or Day of the [Ibero-American] Race, in Spanish — is deeply controversial as a holiday because it signifies the European conquest of the Americas.
Purepecha leaders in Mexico’s Michoacan state released a statement saying: “We were not ‘discovered:’ our lands were invaded and looted.”
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