Colonizers - Colonized

The campaign for debt cancellation, which has reached a widespread during the nineties of last century, has had very diversified positions within. Some members have requested that debt cancellation was made as reparation for the damages caused by colonialism.

The best known is that of Luis Britto Garcia, a Venezuelan professor, which in 1990 published the "Speech by the cacique Guaicaipuro Cautemoc". The main character, an imaginary descendant of the ancient Venezuelan leaders, asked European leaders damage caused by the colonizers to be quantified and then to proceed to compensation with the debt of the countries which were colonized.

Also in these months the repatriation of the remains and the definitive restitutions of the treasures have continued, despite the attempts by some former colonizers to hinder this inevitable step of human evolution.

From 1 to 7 September 2019 decolonization and restitutions were among the topics addressed at the 25th General Conference of the International Council of Museums (ICOM).

On September 18, 2019 the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), which manages German museums, announced the loan to Namibia of twenty-three of the approximately one thousand four hundred treasures looted during the colonial period, while the coalition No Amnesty on genocide! asked for the definitive restitution.