On Saturday’s commemoration of the Day of Indigenous Resistance, a statement from the Foreign Ministry reiterated the importance of keeping alive the struggle and resistance of “our indigenous and Afro-descendant people, and to value their current contributions to the strengthening of society”.

And also serve for the transition to a new era leaving behind discrimination, supremacism and impunity, he added.

Faithful to its anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist tradition, the Bolivarian Republic expressed that the process of aggression against the peoples of Our America “cannot be celebrated nor can it be qualified as a civilizing enterprise”.

It pointed out that this has been responsible for -as the Liberator Simón Bolívar wrote- “barbarities that the present age has rejected as fabulous, because they seem superior to human perversity; and they would never be believed by modern critics if constant and repeated documents did not testify to these unfortunate truths”.

The Bolivarian government stated that it is the responsibility of all humanity to promote channels to make effective the recognition, justice and reparation of these crimes against humanity.

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