True Left

OK, but if we can take down statues of Columbus, why are we still calling the country "Colombia" after Columbus? We need:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/name-decolonization/

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Some among Colombia’s white majority continue to consider Columbus and even controversial characters like Belalcazar as part of their cultural identity.

These are the only ones who should be called Colombians (and hence Western occupiers). The rest should choose a new name.

It's interesting that Colombia came from Francisco de Miranda, a military leader who fought against Spain.

https://www.vox.com/2015/2/1/7954179/map-countries-people

Colombia/Christopher Columbus: Colombia is named after Columbus, but not in the way that you might think. The name Colombia dates back to Francisco de Miranda, a revolutionary who sought to overthrow Spanish colonial rule in late-18th and early 19th century Latin America. He used "Colombia" as a term for all of so-called Spanish America. After General Simon Bolivar actually defeated the Spanish in 1819, the name came to refer to the new country of Gran Colombia (roughly present-day Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, and Venezuela).

Before that, Gran Colombia was called the Viceroyalty of New Granada (Spanish: Virreinato de Nueva Granada)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Colombia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Granada