London officially commemorated on Thursday evening, the bicentennial of the Latin American independence, some of whose architects have left their mark on this city.
Francisco de Miranda, Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzman, General Bernardo O'Higgins and José San Martín developed their ideas or assistance sought in the British capital before and during the process of emancipation, reminded participants at a reception hosted at City Hall.
London is also currently home to a large Latin American community and even the conservative mayor of this origin is claimed.
"I'm the first Latin American mayor of London," joked the municipal official, born in 1964 in New York to parents students 'poor' in the context of a health program in Puerto Rico.
The ceremony in the building on the south bank of the Thames attended by diplomats from Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico and Panama, as well as representatives of the two former colonial powers: Spain and Portugal.
"We celebrate our independence with renewed confidence in ourselves, proud of our past," said the ambassador of the Dominican Republic, Aníbal de Castro, dean of Latin American diplomatic corps accredited to the British capital.
"The future looks bright and concerns of our liberators have been finally resolved," the Haitian ambassador.
The celebration of the bicentennial, which commemorates the triggers of the processes that culminated, often several years later, with declarations of independence, began in 2009 in Bolivia and Ecuador, and will continue until 2021. In 2010 it was the turn to celebrate Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile and Mexico.
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Francisco de Miranda, Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzman, General Bernardo O'Higgins and José San Martín developed their ideas or assistance sought in the British capital before and during the process of emancipation, reminded participants at a reception hosted at City Hall.
London is also currently home to a large Latin American community and even the conservative mayor of this origin is claimed.
"I'm the first Latin American mayor of London," joked the municipal official, born in 1964 in New York to parents students 'poor' in the context of a health program in Puerto Rico.
The ceremony in the building on the south bank of the Thames attended by diplomats from Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico and Panama, as well as representatives of the two former colonial powers: Spain and Portugal.
"We celebrate our independence with renewed confidence in ourselves, proud of our past," said the ambassador of the Dominican Republic, Aníbal de Castro, dean of Latin American diplomatic corps accredited to the British capital.
"The future looks bright and concerns of our liberators have been finally resolved," the Haitian ambassador.
The celebration of the bicentennial, which commemorates the triggers of the processes that culminated, often several years later, with declarations of independence, began in 2009 in Bolivia and Ecuador, and will continue until 2021. In 2010 it was the turn to celebrate Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile and Mexico.
Source: Yahoo Noticias
