Maduro announces that he will make a “deep demand” for Spain to “pay” reparations to indigenous peoples

MADRID 15 Oct. () –

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced this Monday that he will make a “deep demand” for Spain to “pay” reparations to the native peoples on the occasion of the conquest of America in 1492, which was celebrated on October 12, a national holiday. Spanish.

“Venezuela wants, together with a group of Latin American countries, to make a profound claim for Spain to pay reparations for the theft, the plundering of our lands and the slavery and suffering suffered by our indigenous grandparents and our African grandparents,” he declared during his program ‘Con Maduro+’.

The Venezuelan president made these statements after showing his support for the Caribbean countries that, according to some media, have agreed to ask the United Kingdom to pay billions of pounds as reparation for the slave trade.

Last month, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley told the UN General Assembly that her country had joined the “growing chorus calling for the immediate proclamation of a second decade” to complete unfinished work and address the issue. of reparations for colonialism.

“All the countries of the Caribbean are our friends. We love each other, we love each other deeply. (…) We accompany the Caribbean in its fight and demand that London recognize and pay the historical reparations to which the people who are heirs are entitled of slaves brought by force through torture and kidnapping from Africa,” said the Venezuelan president.

Maduro has redoubled his criticism of Spain’s national day this week: “They go out on October 12 to celebrate Columbus Day, Spain’s Day. They couldn’t get another day, because October 12 for all of America, especially everything for our America, it is the day that the genocide, the extermination, the slavery, the colonialism began. It is not a day to celebrate, nor the Day of Spain, nor the day of anything. It is the day of blood, of the. death, of slavery,” he recently declared.