Venezuela To Demand Reparations From Spain for Colonial Plunder
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (C), Oct. 14, 2024. Photo: https://t.me/NicolasMaduroMoros
October 15, 2024 Hour: 8:02 am
Colonization was a barbaric event that the Europeans continue to endorse and claim as a civilizing process.
On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that his country would demand reparations from Spain for the looting, plundering, and enslavement of Indigenous peoples.
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“Venezuela, together with a group of Latin American countries, wants to make a profound claim for Spain to pay reparations for the theft, the looting of our lands, and the slavery and suffering endured by our Indigenous and African ancestors,” he said.
“532 years ago, the process of resistance against colonialism and slavery began. Colonialism left a legacy of nazism and fascism. None of the colonizers, however, have apologized so far,” Maduro said.
“They hide behind the ideology of denialism. From Spain, this barbaric event is endorsed and claimed as a civilizing process,” the Bolivarian leader added and emphasized that the invasion of Indigenous peoples by the Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus was a criminal and abusive act.
During the “Con Maduro +” TV program, the Venezuelan president also reaffirmed his support for Caribbean countries that have agreed to request billions of pounds in reparations from the UK for the slave trade.
Previously, during her address to the UN General Assembly in September, Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley said her country had joined the “growing chorus calling for the immediate proclamation of a second decade” to complete the unfinished work and address the issue of reparations for colonialism.
Recently, Mexico also reminded Spain that it is still waiting for an apology for the crimes committed during colonialism.
teleSUR/ JF Sources: VTV – ABC International
