Posted on YouTube: August 15, 2014
Original Video posted on YouTube August 13, 2014
Note: I only translate the first 10 seconds. The rest of the translation was in the original.
This is coming from TeleSur, a transnational network started by the late Hugo Chavez. The network is Venezuelan controlled; and is sympathetic to Iran and Palestine, while hostile to Israel.
I post this here to show that Israel has lost Latin America for the most part,chiefly by neglect.
Posted on YouTube: Jun 29, 2014
Mercosur (the Latin American common market) has condemned Israel over the war in Gaza – 2014.
Part of this is due to an elite Arab-Latino community with a lot of clout.
Note: Original Video was pulled by YT. So I had to show a video of Brazil’s Dilma Rouseff speaking to Mercosur. – July 2016 Cleanup
Posted on YouTube: July 3, 2013
Argentina tried to replace the statue of Columbus with Juana Azurduy de Padilla. Over 50% of Argentines are Italian. The move proved to be very unpopular. It all ended up in a nasty fight (see bottom of page).
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Light Green areas were
disputed at the time.
Image: Wikipedia
Juana Azurduy de Padilla was a Latin American woman who fought bravely against the Spanish during the wars of Independence. At one point, she was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the Northern Army of the Revolutionary Government of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata. (What would become Argentina).
Though she was fighting for the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata (Argentina), the town where she was born and died is now part of Bolivia.
The Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata once included Uruguay and parts of Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, and Brazil, as well what is now Argentina. The borders would not be settled for decades.
Being half-indigenous, and a woman, she would be a politically correct hero – but more than that, she really does deserve the honor. But couldn’t they have put her statue next to Columbus?
There is a province named after her in Bolivia.
She, indeed, was a hero; but you don’t take down Columbus’ statue. You find a new place for her.
NOTE: They argued about this for years. Eventually, the Columbus statue was just moved to another area of Buenos Aires in 2017.
May 5, 2021 – Edited: Had to find new video. Made mobile friendly. Added and changed text to update the story.
From Bolivia – Apr 25, 2012
Again, Arab culture thoroughly penetrates Latin America.
Again, the Arabes are heavily Christian. Very little Muslims among them.
Bolivia, according to Wikipedia, has only about 2,000 Muslims, out of a population of 10 million. This is equivalent to 1 in 50,000 people. Or actually 0.02% Muslim.
I cannot get a good estimate for the number of Arabs in Bolivia, though obviously, they have affected the culture.
The one exception may be Argentina, but even Argentina’s Arabs are about 90% Christian; and the Muslims in the Arab Community are usually non-practicing.
Muslims in Argentina are about 1% of the population; and that may be exaggerated.