'We Have Nothing to Celebrate': Columbus Day Protesters Fill Streets of Santiago
Mapuche Protest October 12, 2013. HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty ImagesOver 15,000 protesters gathered in Santiago, Chile on Saturday in an anti-Columbus Day demonstration to demand improved indigenous rights and a return of ancestral lands—521 years after Columbus began the European invasion of the Western Hemisphere.
The protest was organized by the country’s largest indigenous group, Organización Mapuche Meli Wixan Mapu, "who have been in a long struggle with the government over ancestral land taken from them during colonization," Al Jazeera America reports.
"We have nothing to celebrate” read a press release by Mapuche.
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