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  • Indigenous Women in Mexico’s Urban Centers

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      The aftermath of the 1993 uprising, known as the “Zapatista Movement”, once again, never addressed the principal grievances of Mexico’s indigenous community. Made up of about 10 million people speaking around 62 ethnic languages and representing more than 60 different ethnic groups, the indigenous community make up 10% of […]

  • Port-au-Prince: a City of Oil and Water

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    Port-au-Prince, the capital and largest city of Haiti, the Caribbean country that shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic is a densely packed urban metropolis comprising mostly of people of African descent. PaP, as it is often referred to, is an oil and water mixture of people with […]