Columbus Day and technology between the new world and the old. The landing is celebrated as ""Columbus Day"" in the United States but the name varies on the international spectrum. In Latin America, October 12th is known as ""Día de la Raza"" or (Day of the Race). Some countries such as Spain refer the holiday as ""Día de la Hispanidad"" and ""Fiesta Nacional"" where it is also the religious festivity of "la Virgen del Pilar." Belize and Uruguay celebrate it as "Día de las Américas" (Day of the Americas). Argentina's former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner officially adopted ""Día del Respeto a
Public holidays in Chile of the Labor Ministry, et cetera) and municipal decrees and ordinances (decree 1316 of 2004 of the Las Condes Municipality, decree 23 of 2006 of the Padre Las Casas Municipality, decree 23 of 2009 of the San Carlos Municipality, et cetera). Public holidays in Chile This is a list of public holidays (national or otherwise) in Chile; about half of them are Christian holidays. On January 28, 1915, President of Chile Ramón Barros Luco promulgated law 2,977, which arranged all the information insofar about holidays celebrated in Chile. It established or kept the following holidays: The same law abolished, by