Venezuela’s socialist regime held a rally in Caracas on Sunday to celebrate this year’s “Day of Indigenous Resistance,” a made-up holiday that erases the legacy of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the Spanish monarchy that backed him.
Dictator Nicolás Maduro called for indigenous people to defend his narco-socialist regime against the “threats” of the United States.
For 81 years, Venezuela historically marked October 12 as Día de la Raza (“Day of the Race”) to commemorate Columbus’ Spain-backed arrival in the Americas in 1492 and “the meeting of two worlds,” which allowed for the creation of the Hispanic ethnic group. The holiday was formally established in Venezuela in 1921 under the government of President Juan Vicente Gómez.
Much like several other Latin American nations ruled by leftist governments, the holiday has been replaced to erase the legacy of Columbus and the “colonization” of the region in centuries past.
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