- On Tuesday 12 National Congress in Valparaiso and Thursday 13 at the Palace of La Moneda, Entourage 150 Afro-descendant community representatives were present for the official activities of celebration of this new law.
- In both instances, representatives of the Rastafari movement Valparaiso and Santiago were also part of this historic enactment.
With zamacueca and tumbes, the Afro-descendant community filled with the joy of their culture alive the hall of the National Congress at the official ceremony held in Parliament yesterday to mark the launch of the new Law 21.151, which it recognized as tribal people in Chile. So too, this morning in Santiago, specifically Coin, official celebrations culminated this great milestone for Afro-Chilean.
Despite heavy rains and low temperature, in a simple but full of emotion Prieto act in the Hall of Government House, the African community expressed joy and gratitude of those who for over twenty years fought for them to be recognized in the country's legislature.
"It was a great thrill first Congress and La Moneda, a wonderful achievement that perhaps no one envisioned that we would enter triumphant in these denied by the Chilean government on the occasion of a structural racism and discrimination and exclusion places. With this law we broke the barriers, and we must continue working much more ", Azaneth said Báez Rios, NGO president Lumbanga and the organization of African women "Daughters of Azapa".
He added that this "historic milestone", it engaged in "memory of our ancestors and ancestras, from the enslaved man and woman who brought five hundred years ago and today are protagonists of history ".
Meanwhile in Valparaiso, Reps in the Technical Committee of the Chilean people of African descent Policy, leaders, dancers, and musicians, a delegation of more than 150 People recalled more than 500 years of presence in the African continent more than two decades ago in Chile struggle for recognition of their culture and rights in the country.
Marta Salgado, driving recognition of tribal people and historic leader of the NGO Black Gold, He made the call to "continue working for the cultural identity of the tribal people, but also walk alongside people to achieve constitutional recognition in Chile ", He said.
On the occasion, the mayor of Arica Espindola Gerardo Rojas called it a historic moment the ceremony at the Chilean Congress and recalled that in the country there was also slavery. "This day is the result of the struggle of the people in the valleys and the city for the State of Chile recognizes the African presence, It recognized that there was slavery in Arica and part of our history ".
Notably, with the enactment of Law 21.151, the State of Chile recognizes the African people in their cultural identity, language, historical tradition, culture, institutions and worldview.
Source: elconcordia.cl / muniarica.cl
