Members of three South American indigenous communities have asked Spain and UNESCO to declare a Spanish galleon that sank 300 years ago with a bountiful cargo as 'common and shared heritage' from which they too should benefit.
MADRID, May 10 - Members of three South American indigenous communities have asked Spain and UNESCO to declare a Spanish galleon that sank 300 years ago with a bountiful cargo as "common and shared heritage" from which they too should benefit.
The indigenous Killakas, Carangas and Chichas peoples estimate that their ancestors - often working in slave-like conditions - extracted the metals that make up around half of the ship's cargo from mines in what is now Bolivia, then under Spanish control, which were then transported north to Cartagena.
"If Spain, in this case, renounces its sovereign immunity, there will be no state or treasure-hunting company that does not invoke this precedent," Lancho told Reuters.UNESCO, the United Nations' culture agency, confirmed it had received the indigenous communities' petition.
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