Without Columbus, There Would Be No Latinos

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Jennifer C Braceras, Without Columbus, There Would Be No Latinos. Wall Street Journal, Sept 25, 2017 (op-ed).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wit ... -latinos-1506289157

Quote:

(a) "The collective impulse to tear down statues and rename buildings to meet modern sensibilities is growing stronger by the day.

(b) "Puerto Rico Celebrates Columbus not once but twice each year: on the federal holiday October and again on Nov 19, or Día del Descubrimiento (Discovery Day). which commemorates Columbus's  arrival in Puerto rico during his econd trans-Atlantic voyage.

"While folks on the mainland wring their hands over whether to take monuments to Columbus down, Puerto Rico is putting them up. Last year the city of Arecibo inaugurated a Columbus monument taller than the Statue of Liberty.  The 46-=foot statue, a gift to US from sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, was rejected by New York, Boston, Miami, Cleveland, Fort Lauderdale, Fla, and -- maybe the biggest insult -- Columbus, Ohio.

(c) "Such commemorations do not absolve Columbus of his flaws or imply forgetting his missteps. The explorer, like most historical figures, was far from perfect. But much of the anti-Columbus rhetoric is based on old proganda from the English and Dutch aimed at demonizing their Spanish-Catholic rivals.

Note:
(a) There is no need to read the rest.
(b) Braceras is a Hispanic surname; I fail to find its meaning or origin.
(c) Spanish-English dictionary:
* descubrimiento (noun masculine; from verb descubrir to discover +‎ -miento)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descubrimiento

(d) Arecibo, Puerto Rico
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo,_Puerto_Rico
(about 50 miles (80 km) west of San Juan, the capital city; Spanish colonists settled Arecibo in 1556, which they named for the cacique)
(i) cacique (n; etymology)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cacique
(ii) from the Web: (at the time the Spanish arrived) "The leader (Indian chief) of these Indians was called Jamaica Aracibo

(e)
(i) Zurab Tsereteli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurab_Tsereteli
(ii) Birth of the New World
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_the_New_World