{"id":238454,"date":"2019-11-08T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238454"},"modified":"2021-09-26T18:17:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T22:17:28","slug":"mapuche-indigenous-people-in-chile-take-down-symbols-of-spanish-colonization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/mapuche-indigenous-people-in-chile-take-down-symbols-of-spanish-colonization\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapuche Indigenous people in Chile take down symbols of Spanish colonization"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Excellent! It should be done everywhere!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chileans have been taking to the streets around the country to protest economic inequality and a democratic system set up after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet that many say is not responding to people&#8217;s needs.<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous Mapuche protesting in Temuco, a city 420 miles south of the capital of Santiago, last week tore down several statues of Spanish conquistadors and Chilean national heroes that dotted the city\u2019s downtown area.<\/p>\n<p>During a day of demonstrations called by Mapuche Indigenous organizations, a large group of demonstrators wearing traditional Mapuche ponchos stood around the bust of Pedro de Valdivia, a Spaniard who led the colonization of Chile in the 1500s, cheering on hooded men who lassoed Valdivia\u2019s bust and yanked it onto the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Then, they stomped the statue and beat it with sticks.<\/p>\n<p>Local press reported that conservative analysts called the destruction of the monuments an act of vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2019-11-07\/mapuche-indigenous-people-chile-take-down-symbols-spanish-colonization?fbclid=IwAR2FwHt_RDYSSwspNKMHcMjmhMgj9fAnwHIo5v2zWZf6gOsdW2GEOBdUvjo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2019-11-07\/mapuche-indigenous-people-chile-take-down-symbols-spanish-colonization?fbclid=IwAR2FwHt_RDYSSwspNKMHcMjmhMgj9fAnwHIo5v2zWZf6gOsdW2GEOBdUvjo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Excellent! It should be done everywhere! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":337396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}