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October 12 is the Columbus “discovered” the New World 510 anniversary of the Mexican to fight for the rights of indigenous people, promoting the culture of the indigenous people at the celebration theme.

In Mexico, October 12 called “race day.” The President of Mexico, issued a statement that the American continent, indigenous people on October 12 as a fight for their own dignity and recognition and promote their own culture and history, to express their requests and cries days. He said that as a country, the indigenous people of Mexico owed “a huge debt”, and therefore “no indigenous people’s full participation, we fought for Mexico to become a democracy, justice, equality and the country’s struggle can not be realized, Mexico would not have a future.”

Fox said that the Mexican government fully supported the indigenous cause. He said that Mexico is a multi-racial and multi-cultural country, it originated from this land of all races and all ethnic cultures and traditions and pride.

In the capital, Mexico City, Mexico’s indigenous people also held a variety of activities, including indigenous people to achieve the equal rights of seminars, display of indigenous music, dance, food, and other traditional cultural activities.

Early in September 1492, sent by the Queen of Spain, was born in Italy, led the Columbus more than 80 sailors, three vessels of the fleet set sail from the port Barrows, Transat looked to the East India and China’s sea routes. After more than 30 days of sailing, October 12, Columbus sailors who boarded the rate of the Bahamas island of San Salvador. Since then, Columbus has three times West route, arrived at Jamaica, Puerto Rico and the islands, the mainland coastal areas in South America, Western first “discovered” the New World of the Americas. However, Columbus mistakenly believe that the American Indian, where the island known as the “West Indies” and the local indigenous people called “Indians.” Mexico put October 12 called “race day” because Mexicans believe that Columbus and the Spanish colonizers arrived in the Americas, the OAS race had changed.