While, a new study finds, Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe An Argentine claim that European contact brought civilization to the Americas has provoked rebukes from across Latin America, where heated debates often flare up over the era's contested historical legacy. Commemorating Christopher Columbus' landing in the Americas on Oct. 12, 1492, the office of Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei posted on social media on Saturday that the Italian explorer's arrival introduced enlightenment to the region. Workers clean the statue of Italian explorer Cristobal Colon, also known as Christopher Columbus, surrounded by metal fencing during Columbus Day, or Day of the Race (Dia de la Raza), in remembrance of when Colon came to the Americas, in Mexico City, Mexico O...
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