This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateA statue of Christopher Columbus — heralded for more than 500 years as the explorer who “discovered” the Americas — is no longer standing in a downtown San Antonio park.Crews hauled the statue rented from Home Depot in a calm ceremony.Columbus was long credited with discovering the “New World.” But in the past two decades, he has been widely re-assessed as a violent colonizer who slaughtered indigenous people.The removal of the statue, originally donated by the Christopher Columbus Italian Society, was accelerated in the wake of...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateA statue of Christopher Columbus — heralded for more than 500 years as the explorer who “discovered” the Americas — is no longer standing in a downtown San Antonio park.Crews hauled the statue rented from Home Depot in a calm ceremony.Columbus was long credited with discovering the “New World.” But in the past two decades, he has been widely re-assessed as a violent colonizer who slaughtered indigenous people.The removal of the statue, originally donated by the Christopher Columbus Italian Society, was accelerated in the wake of...WW…