A number of Latin American embassies in France have denounced a local auction house for trying to sell artefacts dating back to pre-Columbian times, calling for auction to be stopped and artefacts repatriated, with Mexico insisting 83 of the 148 items belong to the country. Embassies of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama and Peru in France condemned Parisian auction house, Million, calling it to cease the sale.
