TeleSUR correspondent Osvaldo Zayas brings us the details of the massive marches that filled the streets of Caracas, Venezuela, on the Indigenous Resistance Day.
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00:00And in Venezuela, indigenous peoples marched through the streets of Caracas to commemorate
00:04the day of indigenous resistance, raising banners of anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism.
00:09This is the details with Osvaldo Salles.
00:15Nobody discovered us.
00:16We already existed.
00:17Claim the indigenous nations that inhabit Venezuelan territory on the day of indigenous
00:23resistance, 532 years after the Spanish invasion of Abaya, Ayala.
00:29Until now, we have still felt invasions against our peoples.
00:33And one more day, we demonstrate that we have resistance.
00:36We have resisted our indigenous peoples.
00:39No more invasions, no more genocide.
00:45We existed.
00:46We were not discovered.
00:48We, the indigenous peoples and communities, are voices of peace, voices that from our
00:55ancestors, we express that we were in our lands, in our spaces, and the Spaniards invaded
01:00us on a day like today.
01:05In Venezuela, the indigenous nations represent approximately 2.8% of the population and live
01:12in just over 3,000 communities.
01:15For them, colonialism continues to exist, although it is changing its forms with the
01:21passage of time.
01:22Today, we vindicate the existence of the more than 50 indigenous peoples that exist in Venezuela
01:28and more than 400 indigenous peoples throughout the Americas in all of our Ayala area.
01:34We continue to vindicate that historical struggle that today we see as a new colonialism that
01:39tries to criminalize.
01:41That tries to make history and fundamentally our indigenous peoples invisible.
01:46The indigenous peoples valued the legislative advances that the Bolivarian Revolution has
01:51given them and remembered with affection President Hugo Chavez for having made the native nations
01:57visible.
02:01We are here, 532 years of our indigenous resistance.
02:06Here we are, the native peoples, made visible thanks to the law given to us by our ancestors.
02:12Made visible thanks to the law given to us by our President Hugo Chavez.
02:22Commander Chavez made us visible and for us.
02:25October 12th is to thank Supreme Commander Hugo Chavez and our President Nicolas Maduro
02:31and tell him that we, the indigenous peoples, are with him no matter what struggles may
02:37come.
02:38The indigenous nations raise the banner of struggle against the colonialism that persists
02:45and seeks to crush the cultural legacy and contributions of the original peoples, even
02:50after 532 years of invasion and genocide.