Madrid City Council dedicate a public space in the capital which was South African president Nelson Mandela, who died recently, today indicated Efe municipal sources.
This space will be called the South African winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation in 1992, who died last Thursday at age 95.
Staunch defender of human rights in the fight against “apartheid” that had imprisoned him for 27 years, Mandela became president in 1994 in the new South Africa, where he ruled until 1997.
Just today, the president of the Movement Against Intolerance, Esteban Ibarra, written request to the Mayor of Madrid, Ana Botella, put the name of Nelson Mandela to name a place yet in the neighborhood of Lavapies, in the old town city.
The square is located between numbers 37 and 39 Street Meson de Paredes, said today the presiding entity Ibarra, who has to support his petition argued that Madrid is “an important area of intercultural and multiethnic coexistence” and welcomes “a large number of immigrants and a large number of African descent.”