4548 x 7000 px | 38,5 x 59,3 cm | 15,2 x 23,3 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
26. Juni 2021
Ort:
Calle de la Fortaleza, San Juan, 00901, Puerto Rico, USA
Weitere Informationen:
Statue of Christopher Columbus in the Plaza Colon, Columbus Square, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA. The Statue of Columbus was placed on its marble pedestal at the entrance to Old San Juan in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s arrival on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico in 1493. In July of 2020 Puerto Rican activists demonstrated demanding that the statue of Columbus be removed from the Square. The demonstrators called the statue a symbol of the oppression of indigenous people, the Tainos and Arawak Indians. It has been estimated that 60, 000 Tainos lived on the island when Columbus and Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon landed from their Spanish ships on the island. Spain ceded the island to the United States under the provisions of the 1898 Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War. In 1917, Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory and its people became U.S. citizens. Statues of Columbus have been defaced or removed from a number of U.S. cities after the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020.
