Chile Hosts World March for Peace Concert
SANTIAGO DE CHILE - Some 50,000 Chileans
attended the World March for Peace Concert,
started October 2 in Wellington, New
Zealand, on World´s Non Violence Day, with
closing set for January 2 in Punta de Vacas
Park, Argentina.
The March has toured 90 countries and
involves now singers Pedro Aznar, Cesar
Isella, Victorio Menghi and Cristian Soloa
of Argentina, Fernando Jimenez (Costa Rica)
and Dr Krapula band of Colombia.
Chile is represented, among other, by Inti
Illimani Historico, Lucybell, Chancho en
Piedra, Florcita Motuda and Sol y Lluvia.
President Michelle Bachelet and Minister for
Culture Paulina Urrutia, among other
personalities, greeted some 12 organizers of
the World March Peace Concert led by
Spaniard Rafael de la Rubia in La Moneda
Palace.
The activists, who call to ban nuclear and
conventional weaponry development, to
withdraw occupation troops and sign anti-war
pacts, held Tuesday a human rights rally in
Santiago's ex illegal detention and torture
center Villa Grimaldi, renamed Parque por la
Paz. |
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