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What's different a year after the wildfires? | SaltWire #novascotia #firefighting #wildfires #newsMADRID - Members of three South American indigenous communities have asked Spain and UNESCO to declare a Spanish galleon that sank 300 years ago with a bountiful cargo as"common and shared heritage" from which they too should benefit.
The indigenous Killakas, Carangas and Chichas peoples estimate that their ancestors - often working in slave-like conditions - extracted the metals that make up around half of the ship's cargo from mines in what is now Bolivia, then under Spanish control, which were then transported north to Cartagena.
"Our native communities consider any act of intervention and unilateral appropriation of the galleon, without consulting us directly and without expressly and effectively considering its common and shared character, to be an act of plunder and neo-colonialism," the indigenous communities said in letters sent to UNESCO and Spain and seen by Reuters.
A UNESCO spokesperson said Colombia - unlike Spain - had not signed the 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage that covers such issues, thus"limiting the scope of our action in the particular case of San Jose".
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