As for twenty-first-century Costa Rica, the result of the constant work and pressure from Afro-Caribbean leaders and groups led to significant changes to correct the aforementioned historical discrepancies. Among the most important transformations made are the reform to the first article of the Constitution of Costa Rica to describe the country as a multi-ethnic and multicultural republic, the adoption of a national policy against racism and xenophobia that mandates public institutions to develop policies to remedy the inequality in the access that Afrodescendants have had to civil rights. Another measure consisted in establishing in the city of Cartago, the old colonial capital, the first memorial to commemorate the Afrodescendent presence in Costa Rica. This site is in Puebla de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles, also known as Puebla de los Pardos, where they began the veneration of the most important Catholic figure in Costa Rica, the Virgen de los Ángeles, affectionately referred to as La Negrita.