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Garifuna people in Orinoco celebrate 185 years since their arrival in Nicaragua

It began with a shipwreck

August 9, 2022

Some time in the 17th century, a vessel carrying enslaved people from the west coast of Africa ran aground near the Caribbean island of St Vincent, close enough to shore that the survivors swam to land, disposed of their captors and settled alongside the Indigenous Carib-Arawak people, who already offered a safe haven to runaway […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, caribbean, Indigenous people

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