Offbeat Demonstrations of indigenous communities in Colombia, Chile and Bolivia
Brazil take a stroll against Bolivia
Brazil did not go into detail during their first World Cup qualifying outing. The Auriverde corrected Bolivia (5-0). © Panoramic Roberto Firmino Brazil Just like Argentina the day before , Brazil started their qualifying route for the 2022 World Cup with a success. Unlike their South American rivals, the Auriverde however managed to combine the art and manner, outclassing Bolivia with a final score of 5 to 0. A real show of force through which Tite's team ideally begins their way to Qatar.
Brazil did not go into detail during their first World Cup qualifying outing. The Auriverde corrected Bolivia (5-0). © Panoramic Roberto Firmino Brazil Just like Argentina the day before , Brazil started their qualifying route for the 2022 World Cup with a success. Unlike their South American rivals, the Auriverde however managed to combine the art and manner, outclassing Bolivia with a final score of 5 to 0. A real show of force through which Tite's team ideally begins their way to Qatar. American Indians, or indigenous peoples of Colombia , are the ethnic groups who have been in Colombia prior to the Europeans in the early 16th century. Known as pueblos indígenas in Spanish, they comprise 4.4% of the country's population and belong to 87 different tribes.
The Indigenous Authorities of Colombia (Autoridades Indígenas de Colombia ) is a progressive indigenist political party in Colombia . At the last legislative elections, 10 March 2002, the party won as one of the many small parties parliamentary representation.
© Luis ROBAYO The demonstrators, members of the indigenous community of Colombia, move towards Cali (southwest), October 12, 2020 Thousands of members of indigenous communities in Colombia, Chile and Bolivia demonstrated on Monday, the day to commemorate the arrival of Christopher Columbus on the American continent and the national holiday in Spain.
In southwestern Colombia, demonstrators converged on Cali to "denounce the systematic massacres that are taking place in our territories without the government taking any interest in them," said Franky Reinosa, of the Indigenous Regional Council of the 'State of Caldas (west).
‘Terrorizing our people’: N.S. Mi’kmaw fishers have property vandalized, lobsters destroyed
On Tuesday night a facility was 'swarmed and vandalized' by commercial fishermen, said Chief Michael Sack of the Sipeknet'katik First Nation.The incidents, the latest in continuing tensions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous fishers in Nova Scotia, allegedly occurred at two locations, one in Central West Pubnico, N.S., and the other in New Edinburgh, N.S. Abstract Recent conflict between indigenous people and a self-styled indigenous state in Bolivia has brought to the fore some of the paradoxes and contradictions within the concept of indigeneity itself. The contemporary politics of state sponsored indigeneity in Bolivia has as much capacity to create
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© Martin BERNETTI Demonstration of members of the Mapuche indigenous community, October 12, 2020 in Santiago de Chile The demonstrators also ask to be consulted on the major projects that impact their territories, and the full implementation of the historic peace plan of 2016 that ended half a century of violence with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
© Martin BERNETTI Clashes between police and demonstrators on October 12, 2020 in Santiago de Chile The southwest of Colombia, which borders Ecuador and the Pacific, has a large indigenous population estimated at 4.4% of the 50 million inhabitants, and is one of the regions most affected by violence linked to cocaine trafficking in the country, the world's largest producer.
Chile: strong mobilization for the first anniversary of the social revolt
© Martin BERNETTI Demonstration for the 1st anniversary of the start of the social revolt in Chile, October 18, 2020 in Santiago Tens of thousands of Chileans gathered on Sunday in Santiago to commemorate the first anniversary of the start of the social protest for more equality and to mobilize in favor of the "yes" to the constitutional referendum. Chile – Colombia relations refer to the historical and current relationship between Chile and Colombia . Both two nations were once part of Spain, having shared cultural and linguistic tie developed from Spanish rule, and also embracing democracy and allies of the United States.
Amerindian communities have not been passive actors in the historical evolution of Bolivia . This generation of indigenous peoples had new concerns based on their substantial increase in resource control, and Bolivia ’s relations with Chile and the United States, themes long espoused by MAS.
The event takes place on the day of the commemoration of the arrival of Christopher Columbus' expeditions to the Americas, in 1492, "Hispanic Day" and national holiday in Spain, called "Race Day" in many countries of the region.
"For us, it was the biggest ethnocide in the history of our territories," said Franky Reinosa.
In Santiago, representatives of the indigenous Chilean peoples, mainly Mapuche, the largest ethnic group in the country, also demonstrated. Clashes broke out with police and at least 12 people were arrested.
"October 12 is a dark date for the peoples, for the first nations of the Americas, because it marks the beginning of genocide, exploitation, plunder, slavery," said Jorge Huenchullan, spokesperson of the Mapuche Autonomous Community of Temucuicui, in Araucania (south).
Most of the Mapuche in Chile live in Araucanía and have a historic conflict with the Chilean state from which they claim land which they consider to be theirs by ancestral right.
Colombia: thousands of indigenous people in Bogota to demand to see the president
© Provided by Le Point Thousands of members of the indigenous communities of Colombia flocked to Bogota on Sunday to demand a meeting with President Ivan Duque and denounce the wave of violence shaking their territories. "We ask for guarantees for life (...) and that they respect the peace agreements" agreed in 2016 with the former Farc guerrillas, told AFP Hermes Pete, head of the Council indigenous regional of the State of Cauca. In the past two months, large-scale protests and citizen mobilizations have raged against the governments of Andean countries. While the circumstances differ in each country, key moments converted simmering citizen anger into widespread and sustained street demonstrations amid
People are protesting around the world, from Lebanon to Chile . What do they have in common? In recent weeks, mass protests have broken out in countries from Lebanon to Spain to Chile and Demonstrations began in Ecuador last month when the government announced that it was scrapping
The authorities have handed over several to private companies, mainly logging companies.
In addition to indigenous groups, violent social demonstrations shake Chile before a referendum organized on October 25 to determine whether to change the Constitution inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
In Bolivia, in the capital La Paz, activists defending women's rights placed a traditional Andean skirt on the statue of Isabella the Catholic (1451-1504), Queen of Castile and Aragon, who had funded the Christopher Columbus expeditions.
© Luis ROBAYO The demonstrators, members of the indigenous community of Colombia, move towards Cali (southwest), October 12, 2020 Through this action, which also aimed to denounce violence against women, the demonstrators intended to say "that colonization was genocide, that America did not have to be discovered, that America already had societies formed," Diana, an 18-year-old activist told AFP.
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For Acadian fisherman, early Mi'kmaq fishery in N.S. bay can 'never' be respected .
METEGHAN, N.S. — As he stands calmly splicing anchor rope, Roger LeBlanc describes the anxiety, anger and suspicion over a Mi'kmaq lobster fishery that is coursing through his small Acadian community. "This stock has been building up for 150 years, and my grandfather and my father and myself, we sat at the table with governments, we made rules to have a livelihood for our kids and grandkids," he said during an interview this week at his workshop in Meteghan, a largely French-speaking town on St. Marys Bay. "In a few more years, what we worked for . . . will be gone.
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