Yesterday was 525 years since this continent was invaded and since one of the greatest tragedies of European colonialism began on October 12, 1492, the date of the beginning of a long process of colonization that we could say, continues to the present, where hundreds of thousands of people were murdered and enslaved in different regions of the continent, forced to abandon many of their beliefs and cultural practices, abandon their ancestral languages and knowledge, ending with peoples and cultures even of more social and political complexity than on the European continent, implying the introduction to force of its conception of welfare, justice, progress, work, education, and its conception of the relationship with the environment, and the relationship between ourselves as people.
They are all those factors and many more, those that have influenced our conformation as a Latin society and our identity configuration, in short, a lot of foreign elements that until today keep us colonized and in the practice of social models that are not typical of our ancestral cultures, and which contribute to the accumulation of wealth of the privileged sectors. However, in the course of more than five hundred years, there are peoples who have resisted and still struggle for their territory and autonomy, as is the Mapuche people, but as a result of which it has been violently and cowardly repressed by the Chilean State, as has been seen in recent months in Araucanía.
October 12 there is nothing to celebrate, nor to commemorate, it's not the encounter of two worlds, it's the violent invasion and looting of one over another.
