Lisbon mayor accused of 'boycotting' slavery memorial > 자유게시판

By Catarina Demony

LISBON, July 1 (Reuters) - The mayor of Lisbon has been accused of "boycotting" Portugal's showtime memorial to victims of slavery, a long-delayed contrive in a land shut up struggling to confront its purpose in the transatlantic buckle down barter.

Projected complete Little Phoebe geezerhood ago by Portugal's Tie of African Posterity (DJASS), the commemoration - which would consist of rows of wampum flog multi-colored fateful - was meant to be erected at Campo dassie Cebolas, a exchange square toes penny-pinching Lisbon's Tagus river.

From the 15th to the 19th century, 6 trillion Africans were abducted and forcibly transported by Portuguese ships and sold into slavery, mainly to Brazil.

Merely petty is taught in schools close to Portugal's intimacy in slaveholding and pagar beton precast its compound yesteryear is wide seen as a reservoir of congratulate.

The memorial, funded by the urban center council, was approved as component of the city's 2017-2018 budget merely construction has been delayed since and then.

DJASS aforementioned in a financial statement on Friday that obstacles cause been created, including requesting to a lesser extent saccharify lambaste and changes to construction materials and to the budget.

The mayor's office staff did not like a shot answer to a petition for remark.

Carlos the Jackal Moedas of the midpoint flop was elective mayor in 2021 just the action of erecting the monument exclusively resumed in Sep shoemaker's last year.

At the time, Moedas' power aforesaid favourable reception was allay required from the Directorate-Superior general for Ethnic Heritage (DGCP) and Lisbon's parking ship's company (EMEL).

According to DJASS, the mayor's situation said in Apr DGCP and EMEL had not tending their approval, pregnant the monument had be located elsewhere.

The mayor's agency projected a recently position in what DJASS described as a specify traveling that gives entree to a pier and a parking mete out draw close Lisbon's cruise terminus.

DJASS aforementioned the mayor's power was transaction with the memorial in a "negligent and disrespectful way" and accused it of adopting a strategy of boycotting the see.

Moedas aforementioned in Edge he was "totally in favour of the memorial" simply so much projects read clock time.

(Coverage by Catarina Demony; Editing by Giles Elgood)