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Colombia removes statues of Columbus and Spanish queen after attacks
(Image: Senator Feliciano Valencia)
by Adriaan Alsema June 13, 2021
Colombia’s culture ministry removed statues of 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus and Spain’s late Queen Isabella amid fears they would be tumbled.
Government workers removed the statues from their pedestals in the capital Bogota on Friday after native Colombian protesters tried to tumble them on Wednesday.
The attempts triggered tensions with a fringe white supremacist group that subsequently tried to attack the protesters of the Misak people from southwest Colombia.
According to the Culture Ministry, the statues that were erected in 1906 were taken to a safe place for “a process of restauration.”
(Image: Wikipedia)
The National Patrimony agency said that it would hold talks with different social sectors about the future of the European explorer and the late monarch who financed the naval adventure that led Columbus to the Americas.
More;
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-removes-statues-of-columbus-and-spanish-queen-after-attacks/
