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THE WEEK, Page 23WORLDTake That, Cristoforo!
Columbus' quincentennial provokes protests throughout Latin
America
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.