Sources: Chile.com and Chile public holidays. In our post of November 22 we mentioned the possibility that a bill would be introduced to cancel the October 12 Día de la Raza public holiday, partly to compensate the new October 31, Reformation Day, public holiday, and partly because that public holiday's name is becoming less and less politically correct (in 2002, Venezuela changed the name of its equivalent holiday to Día de la Resistencia Indígena, and Argentina is considering changing the name of its holiday to Día de la Diversidad Cultural Americana).As expected, deputy Eduardo Saffirio has announced that, in the next few days, he will introduce a bill before parliament to cancel the October 12 public holiday. We expect this bill to pass before next year's holiday in October, since it has already received positive official comments from deputy Gonzalo Duarte, who is the president of the Comisión de Gobierno Interior, and from the Conadi indigenous associations umbrella group.
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