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<text id=92TT2438>
<title>
Oct. 26, 1992: Take That, Cristoforo!
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Oct. 26, 1992 The Iceman's Secrets
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 23
WORLD
Take That, Cristoforo!
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<p>Columbus' quincentennial provokes protests throughout Latin
America
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<p> In the U.S., the controversy had raged so long and so
intensely before the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discov . . .
err, voyage to the New World that the actual day passed almost
unnoticed last week. Not so in Latin America, where Native
Americans constitute a majority of the population in a few
countries and a large minority in others, and where cultural
tensions between Indians, mixed-bloods and descendants of the
conquista dores have long been severe. Two groups of native
peoples from nearly opposite ends of the hemisphere -- Alaska
and Peru -- met at the Teotihuacan pyramids outside Mexico City
at the end of a month-long march to celebrate "500 years of
survival." In the city, thousands of additional demonstrators
danced and prayed on the Zocalo, the central square; still
others hung a sign reading FIVE CENTURIES OF MASSACRE around the
neck of a statue of Columbus on the elegant main avenue, Paseo
de la Reforma. Mass demonstrations also occurred in Bolivia and
Chile. In Buenos Aires some native people staged a three-day
hunger strike that ended on Columbus Day in front of the Casa
Rosada, the Argentine presidential palace. And in Managua,
Nicaragua, a poster branded Columbus A BIG THIEF, MURDERER,
RACIST, TORTURER, OPPRESSOR OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND INSTIGATOR
OF THE BIG LIE.
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