Happy Day of Indigenous Resistance
While some countries mark the invasion of the Americas by Spain as Colombus Day, or even Race Day (Dia de la Raza), many countries in the region are now instead celebrating indigenous resistance.
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Following the proposal of then president of the Ibero-American Union, Faustino Rodriguez San Pedro in 1913, Latin American governments began to pay tribute every October 12 to the enrichment that the Spanish mixing with indigenous peoples represented, under the disgraceful name of Day of Race - and Day of Hispanity in Spain.
However the so-called discovery of the Americad caused the worst demographic catastrophe of human history, with around 95 percent of the indigenous population annihilated in the first 130 years of colonization, according to the U.S. Professor of Anthropology Henry Farmer Dobyns without mentioning the victims from the African continent, with about 60 million people sent to the Americas as slaves, and only 12 percent of them arrived alive.
With indigenous people increasingly demanding their rights in the 1980s, the United Nations declared the year 1992 as the International Day of Indigenous Peoples, ruining thereby the determination of Spain and other countries to call it International Day of America's Discovery ...