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                                                                                                                                                                 Thursday 15 October 2015

Paseo Herencia Mall Celebrates Colorful “Dia de la Raza”

PASEO MALL - Paseo Her-       Venezuelan Institute for      covery of the continents
encia Shopping Center         Culture and Cooperation       of the western hemisphere
was proud to welcome the      called “Curazon di Ven-       and their colonization with
Consul General of Venezu-     ezuela,” (Heart of Venezu-    a more realistic analysis
ela, Alirio Mendoza and       ela) performed along with     of the treatment and fate
his vice consuls as special   noted Venezuelan violinist    of the indigenous people
guests as the mall present-   Angela Flores.                who were displaced by
ed the native arts of one of  October 12 is a land-         the settlement of these
the many native peoples       mark occasion for the         lands. The idea of replac-
of their country. The varied  New World, the birthday       ing Columbus Day by cel-
and entertaining program      of Christopher Columbus,      ebrating the indigenous
paid tribute to their music,  which is observed in various  people of North America
dance and handicrafts.        ways. Historians, however,    first arose in 1977 from the
A dance group from the        have re-examined the dis-     International Conference
                                                            on Discrimination Against
                                                            Indigenous Populations in
                                                            the Americas, sponsored
                                                            by the United Nations in
                                                            Geneva, Switzerland.

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