The Spanish nationalist party VOX has released a poster commemorating the Day of the Spanish People, which is celebrated on Tuesday when the territory of Portugal is part of Spain, like the former Portuguese colonies.
“Spain has something to celebrate and nothing to regret. On a day like today [esta terça-feira], 529 years ago, Columbus discovered America and began Hispanity, the greatest human twinning work in world history. “, says the party post that accompanies the image posted on social media.
In the center of the image is a map on which the old possessions of the Spanish crown around the world are marked in red. including Portugal, all of Latin America, most of North America and the African coast of the Atlantic and India, including what Tuesday is Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, among other countries.
Above the flag with portuguese weaponsnext to the Philippine Spanish royal shield during the 60-year period of Portugal’s annexation by Spain (1580-1640), when Portuguese arms were part of the coat of arms of the Spanish crown.
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In several countries in South America, this day was marked by indigenous marches, which were sympathetic to various political parties and some heads of state.
Spanish People’s Day, a national holiday in the neighboring country, marks the arrival of an expedition led by Christopher Columbus on October 12, 1492, to Guanani Island in the Bahamas, which, several years earlier, was considered the first contact between Europe and America. Pedro lvarez Cabral arrived in Brazil.
The Spanish holiday, established by Law 18/1987, symbolizes, according to the Official State Gazette, “the historic event in which Spain is about to complete the process of nation-building based on our cultural and political pluralism and the integration of the Kingdoms of Spain under the same monarchy, a period of linguistic and cultural projection begins beyond European borders ”.
