Pro-Palestine protest in Cali, Colombia. Wikimedia Commons. All Rights Reserved.
In November of 1947, the international community approved a move that split Palestine into two states as a means to resolve the issue of Arab and Jewish nationalisms. Latin American nations of the then constrained UN – 20 states, or around half of the membership at that time – stood out for their majority support for said partition.
13 of the 33 votes in favour were from Latin American states. The region additionally stood out among states who did not position themselves: 6 of 10 abstentions were Latin America. Alongside Argentina and Mexico, Colombia was one of the nations to abstain.
