Historian Víctor Hugo Robledo honored
Decree No. 911, authored by Councilor Viviana Luna, was delivered in the Circular Space, where the second edition of Cultural Fridays was held, organized by the Deliberative Council in conjunction with the deliberative workers of the Cultural Integration Group. This event was also distinguished as Municipal Interest, by Ordinance No. 6420.
On this occasion, the cycle was focused on indigenous peoples because April 19 was American Aboriginal Day. Víctor Robledo and Matías Herrera spoke and the debate was transferred to those present. Likewise, the Municipal Folkloric Ballet “Liliana Albarracín” carried out the painting “Our Town” and the Music Department, through the participation of Ada Guzmán, José Díaz, Franco Castro and Sergio Castro.
The vice mayor highlighted the opportunity to reflect on different events and dates, through this cycle of cultural extension organized by deliberative workers, while she left greetings from Governor Ricardo Quintela and Mayor Armando Molina.
In his speech, Víctor Robledo raised the need to look at the history of La Rioja long before its founding, “because there were organized communities that had been evolving according to the passage of time.” In this sense, he indicated that the original peoples of La Rioja suffered the first subjugation with the arrival of the Incas and then with the Spanish. “Chaya is the true agrarian festival of La Rioja and not Pachamama, because that was imposed by the Incas,” he emphasized in his speech.
Approaching the month of founding of the City of All Saints of Nueva Rioja, Matías Herrera launched the slogan of rethinking the founding act as on those birthdays where one looks at what one did the previous year, “see how we walk and see where we are going.” ”. He made visible the beginnings of the federal montaneras in the plains, “with communal lands, for protection and feedback.”
The vice mayor Mónica Díaz D’Albano was present; councilors Viviana Luna, Pablo Herrera and Yolanda Corzo; the deliberative secretary Carlos Gaitán; the deliberative pro-secretary Victoria Estrada; the Administrative Deputy Secretary Laura Andrada; the Undersecretary of Municipal Culture Diana Guzmán; representatives of the native community, workers, neighbors.
Native American Day is celebrated every year in commemoration of the Inter-American Indian Congress held in Mexico on April 19, 1940. This congress was convened in the city of Patzquaro by the then Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas; who was himself a descendant of Aboriginal people.
There, representatives of the majority of the indigenous cultures of our continent met for the first time, to analyze their situation and look for common paths, in the face of the adversities they faced. As a result of this meeting, the Inter-American Indigenous Institute was founded, an entity that today has its headquarters in Mexico and depends on the Organization of American States (OAS). Argentina recognized that date five years later.
