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The Agricultural Potential of the Wayuu Tribe
Indigenous Mental Health in a Changing Climate
Central American and Caribbean Dance: Tracing African Roots
By Ashley Brown
The Garifuna sing their pain. They sing about their concerns. They sing about what's going on. We dance when there is a death. It's a tradition [meant] to bring a little joy to the family, but every song has a different meaning. Different words. The Garifuna does not sing about love. The Garifuna sings about things that reach your heart (Serrano, 2018).
An Overview of Early Farming Practices Throughout Latin America
El peligro que presenta el covid-19 para las comunidades indígenas de Latinoamérica
Por Madeleine Umstead
This essay was selected as a winner for the Fall 2020 Essay Competition Concurso de Escritura Panoramas.
Indios y burros: Rethinking 'la India María' as Ethnographic Cinema
Las Semillas: Quitando la Cultura de Agricultura
Desde el comienzo de la década de 2010, la privatización de las semillas se ha convertido en un problema turbulento en toda América del Sur. La agricultura es un aspecto esencial de muchas comunidades indígenas y afro-latinas. Corporaciones multinacionales están perturbando este sistema para aumentar sus propios beneficios. Ha sido progreso en unos países, como Chile, pero hay demasiada inacción y negligencia en otros, como Venezuela, y Ecuador.
María de Jesús Patricio: face of ‘new’ Zapatista movement?
Twenty-three years ago, Mexico’s Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) successfully executed its famous uprising under its leader, Subcomandante Marcos, which many thought would be the first sentence on a new page in Mexican history. The revolution in Chiapas, which was intentionally planned to align with the introduction of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), seemed as if it would achieve its goal of realizing rights for indigenous people (Young 2017).
Latest oil finds in Mexico adding fuel to presidential candidates’ platforms
Over the past few years, Mexico’s financial landscape has been undergoing a painful transformation, largely due to the sudden drop in oil prices seen worldwide. Just ten years ago, 35 percent of the government’s revenue was derived from crude oil production. As of last year, though, this had fallen to 20 percent as prices fell and the Mexican state-owned company Pemex reduced its typical 3.4 million barrel per day (bpd) production rate to around 2.2 million bpd.