Monumento a la Raza

The Monumento a la Raza y al Mestizaje (lit. 'Monument to the Race and to Mestizo-ship'), simply known as the Monumento a la Raza, was a concrete-and-steel outdoor sculpture and monument in the city of Neiva, Huila, Colombia. It featured a Spanish conquistador, an indigenous woman, and their mixed-race infant, all of whom were partially naked. Olmo Guillermo Liévano, the city's mayor, unveiled it on a roundabout at the South Colombian University on 24 May 1978, to commemorate the 366th year of the city's founding. It was a sculpture by Colombian artist Carlos Rojas Niño. The monument was moved in May 2018 to make room for renovations to the El Tizón Bridge road junction. The sculpture was scheduled to receive restoration as well. Demonstrators toppled it on 18 May 2021, citing decolonization and feminist arguments. Rojas Niño said that the monument depicted the cynicism of the conquistadors during the colonization of the Americas.

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