Say NO to Columbus Statue in Puerto Rico // Dile NO a la Estatua de Colón en Puerto Rico
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Tamara Rondon
11 years ago
To erect this statue on Puerto Rican soil is to disrespect the memory of our ancestors that suffered at this tyrants hands.
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Liza Crespo
11 years ago
This is so wrong! Don't disgrace our people with such a statue!
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Christina Rivera
11 years ago
Puerto Rico and Jamaica In 1509, the Spanish, with the same purpose in mind as they had when they landed on Hispaniola, found their way to the two verdant islands of Puerto Rico and Jamaica. Here they perpetrated the same outrages and committed the same crimes as before, devising yet further refinements of cruelty, murdering the native people, burning and roasting them alive, throwing them to wild dogs and oppressing, tormenting and plaguing them with toil down the mines and elsewhere, and so once again the killing off these poor innocents to such effect that where the native population of the two islands was certainly over 600,000 (and I personally reckon it a more than million). Fewer than two hundred survive on each of he two islands, all others have perished without ever learning the truths about the Christian religion and without the benefit of the Sacraments.
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Nilda Martinez
11 years ago
the man if alive today would be charged as a criminal for the crimes he has committed . let the italians build him a statue , Puerto Rico has nothing to do with Italy and why would you recognize a man who stole our taino heritage and made slaves out of us ..so NO !!!
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Marcos Garcia
11 years ago
Colón es un símbolo de Genocidio, no un héroe que ha de celebrarse.
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Mildred Karaira Gandia Ziegelasch
11 years ago
this statue is an insult to all humanity, it is an insult to the first people of Puerto Rico that suffered torture, rape and atrocities at the hands of this murdered, witch hitler learned from!
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Hector Phillip Torres Costas
11 years ago
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Kathy Rivera
11 years ago
That statue is a slap in the face to us as a people
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Jose Manuel Rosario Torres
11 years ago
Masacraron nuestro indios
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Carmen Trinidad
11 years ago
I don't like more Cristobal Colón in our life
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Carlos santos
11 years ago
No al genocidio
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Jan Gonzalez
11 years ago
Colon= Saqueador de nuestro pais... Fuera!!!
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nancy sanchez
11 years ago
colon dint discover america..many cultures leved here before he came to steel and kill
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Luis Nieves
11 years ago
There is aplace for this statue and it is the Vieques trench ! No to the Columbus statue in Arecibo or any oher place in Puerto Rico.
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David Lozada
11 years ago
Sí a la estatua.
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AngelD
11 years ago
sadly a lot of people in my country dont understand how bad and ugly this man was,they keep idolatrizing him
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Isabel V
11 years ago
Don't think is the time to spend money doing things like this when the Island is in a financial crisis.
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Dr. Loretta Collins
11 years ago
Given our contemporary understanding of history, it is offensive to install this statue anywhere in the Caribbean. Moreover, it is totally out of scale to Caribbean architectural aesthetics and our natural environment. It is ugly.
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Etnairis Ribera
11 years ago
¡No a la nueva estatua de Colón! ¡Levantemos estatua de Guarionex o Ag
To erect this statue on Puerto Rican soil is to disrespect the memory of our ancestors that suffered at this tyrants hands.
This is so wrong! Don't disgrace our people with such a statue!
Puerto Rico and Jamaica In 1509, the Spanish, with the same purpose in mind as they had when they landed on Hispaniola, found their way to the two verdant islands of Puerto Rico and Jamaica. Here they perpetrated the same outrages and committed the same crimes as before, devising yet further refinements of cruelty, murdering the native people, burning and roasting them alive, throwing them to wild dogs and oppressing, tormenting and plaguing them with toil down the mines and elsewhere, and so once again the killing off these poor innocents to such effect that where the native population of the two islands was certainly over 600,000 (and I personally reckon it a more than million). Fewer than two hundred survive on each of he two islands, all others have perished without ever learning the truths about the Christian religion and without the benefit of the Sacraments.
the man if alive today would be charged as a criminal for the crimes he has committed . let the italians build him a statue , Puerto Rico has nothing to do with Italy and why would you recognize a man who stole our taino heritage and made slaves out of us ..so NO !!!
Colón es un símbolo de Genocidio, no un héroe que ha de celebrarse.
this statue is an insult to all humanity, it is an insult to the first people of Puerto Rico that suffered torture, rape and atrocities at the hands of this murdered, witch hitler learned from!
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That statue is a slap in the face to us as a people
Masacraron nuestro indios
I don't like more Cristobal Colón in our life
No al genocidio
Colon= Saqueador de nuestro pais... Fuera!!!
colon dint discover america..many cultures leved here before he came to steel and kill
There is aplace for this statue and it is the Vieques trench ! No to the Columbus statue in Arecibo or any oher place in Puerto Rico.
Sí a la estatua.
sadly a lot of people in my country dont understand how bad and ugly this man was,they keep idolatrizing him
Don't think is the time to spend money doing things like this when the Island is in a financial crisis.
Given our contemporary understanding of history, it is offensive to install this statue anywhere in the Caribbean. Moreover, it is totally out of scale to Caribbean architectural aesthetics and our natural environment. It is ugly.
¡No a la nueva estatua de Colón! ¡Levantemos estatua de Guarionex o Ag
He was a serial rapist and mass murderer!