A group of demonstrators yesterday demolished in Barranquilla, the capital of the Atlantic department, the marble statue of Christopher Columbus, which was donated by the Italian community to the city in 1892, for the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America.
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Some demonstrators, who took to the streets on the occasion of the mobilization for the second month of anti-government protests in Colombia, climbed the pedestal of the statue placed in a square in front of the Carmen church, and facilitated its demolition using ropes.
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Once on the ground, the demonstrators hit the sculpture with a stone throw, painting it with graffiti (“For our dead” and “Here the killers fall”) and also causing the detachment of Columbus’s head.
The group then set off, dragging the head of the Genoese navigator along the entire Calle Murillo of the city.
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On 9 June last in Bogotá a group of indigenous people tried to tear down the statues of Columbus and Queen Isabella of Castile, but had been blocked by the police.
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