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Newsday
February 11, 2018
Less than two years after it opened in Port Washington, Guajiro Restaurant has closed. The Cuban eatery occupied the oft-churned Manorhaven Boulevard spot that had previously been Dolce and, before that, áAy Que Rico!, Livorno and Nick & Pedro's. All benefited from the spacious, secluded back patio,à...
ReliefWeb
February 9, 2018
The Colombian Red Cross Guajira branch has worked in more than 110 indigenous communities, contributing to the improvement of the quality of life of families through the different projects in execution in the upper area of the Department. One of these projects is “Emergency assistance in health andÃÂ ...
Devex
February 7, 2018
Ipuana is of Wayuu ethnicity, like the vast majority of those in the area, and has little time to care about peace deals between the government and guerrilla groups. A peace agreement signed in November 2016 between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, hadÃÂ ...
Dearborn Press and Guide
January 25, 2018
Electronic/experimental music takes the stage for the next two concerts. Lido Pimienta, a Toronto-based interdisciplinary musician and artist-curator of Colombian and indigenous Wayuu descent, performs March 9. Pimienta won Canada's prestigious Polaris Prize in 2017 for her album “La Papessa,” aheadÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 5, 2018
In a simple wooden hut on a Caribbean beach, a young girl sits at the feet of her grandmother, who is crocheting a brightly coloured shoulder bag whose intricate design draws on the mythology of the Wayuu people. It's the opening scene from a smartphone game that seeks to educate Colombian childrenÃÂ ...
The Bogota Post
November 2, 2017
The Wayuu community, with a population of 270,000 people, is Colombia's largest group of indigenous people. The majority of them live in the ...
POLITICO.eu
October 31, 2017
La Guajira, in northern Colombia, is one of the country's most remote and impoverished regions. It is also home to more than 270,000 Wayuu, ...
FreshPlaza
August 23, 2017
Israeli experts are in the department of La Guajira to accompany the Ministry of Economic Development in the design and formulation ofÃÂ ...
3ders.org (blog)
August 6, 2017
Pattern-wise, the industrial designer drew inspiration from the Wayuu tribe, an Indigenous community of the Guajira Peninsula in northernÃÂ ...
Colombia Reports
March 10, 2017
The governor of the province with the highest child mortality in Colombia was arrested for embezzling funds meant to curb this child mortality rate.
NPR
February 7, 2017
The economic meltdown in Venezuela is contributing to Indian children across the border in Colombia dying. Health experts say the Wayuu tribe has been particularly hard-hit. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now let's visit Colombia's border with Venezuela.
teleSUR English
February 6, 2017
Another Colombian infant has died in the little-known but grave crisis of child malnutrition and poverty rocking the Wayuu Indigenous community in the northeastern department of La Guajira, where Indigenous leaders have faced an escalation of ...
Billboard
January 27, 2017
"I titled this album Afro-Caribbean Mixtape as a way of acknowledging the strong will of African peoples," the singular trumpeter and musical mixologist Nicholas Payton writes of his peregrinating new release.
Fusion
December 22, 2016
Lara says Atlantis will save around $170,000 by skipping Christmas decorations and plans to earmark $100,000 of that to help three indigenous villages in Colombia's arid La Guajira Province. The plan, according to Lara, is to finance education projects ...
teleSUR English
December 12, 2016
Five Indigenous children have died of malnutrition in less than a week in Colombia's remote coastal department of La Guajira, bringing the toll of the avoidable cause of death to 81 this year alone and raising further alarm about the food security ...
The City Paper Bogota
November 14, 2016
Fishermen cast nets in the flamingo reserve in Colombia's northern La Guajira department. (Photo by Jacqui de Klerk). I sit in the back.
The Week Magazine
November 4, 2016
Charred by the pulsing heat, the earth has turned to dust. Rivers have thinned to threads. Wells and ponds have parched. Across the sun-punished lands of Colombia's La Guajira province, the northernmost point of South America, the symptoms of droughtÃÂ ...
Monitor
October 28, 2016
Under trees, in the hot sun, sitting on the dirt ground, everywhere Franz saw these Caribbean villagers, called Wayuu, making these stunning hand-woven articles, just as they have for generations.
Irish Times
October 20, 2016
Wizened shrubs and stoic cacti peppered the otherwise parched sands of the Guajira Peninsula, the most northerly region of the South American continent.
The Ecologist (blog)
October 17, 2016
La Guajira, a dusty but spartanly beautiful region in Colombia's desert north is in the grips of a crisis. Climate change, desertification and water shortages have combined to create a perfect storm for the local rural community: a drought so severe ...
University of Miami
September 29, 2016
La Guajira, Colombia is not a welcoming place. The coastal waters are roiling, the arid conditions leave you breathless and the desert landscape of impassable sand dunes are enough to deter curious travelers.
Naples Daily News
September 19, 2016
Thea Mason and Diego Verney with the handmade bags that they sell through their company Lula to support the Wayuu tribe artists in Colombia.
Indian Country Today Media Network
August 21, 2016
The Colombian Government must allow the waters of the Rancheria River to return to the Indigenous Wayuu community according to rulings from two of the country's highest courts, noting the reports of the deaths of 5,000 Indigenous children in the last ...
Huffington Post
August 3, 2016
This order follows the December 11, 2015 decision of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) which directed the Colombian government to take similar immediate "precautionary measures" to ensure the lives and personal safety of WayuuÃÂ ...
Vital VOICE
June 9, 2016
... PATRICIA VELASQUEZ (First Latina Supermodel, Showtimes The L Word, Social Entrepreneur of Wayuu Taya), BROCK CIARLELLI (ABC's The Middle), KIMBERLEY LOCKE (Pop Star, American Idol, Television host), NATHAN LEE GRAHAM (Zoolander,ÃÂ ...
The FADER
June 8, 2016
Indian Giver runs in Toronto through June 19, and features clothes, textiles, and other wearable pieces from eight artists (including musician Lido Pimienta) representing Cree, Mohawk, Gwich'in, Nahua, Dene, Wayuu, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Ojibwe peoples.
Colombia Reports
June 6, 2016
According to the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights, more than 4,500 children of the Wayuu, the native people of La Guajira, died of malnutrition in the past 8 years. The INS said that almost 56% of the deceased children was indigenous, whileÃÂ ...
AlterNet
June 2, 2016
PUNTA GALLINAS, COLOMBIA, JANUARY 16: Indian Wayuu Colombian traveling on a truck and working in a salt mine in La Guajira, Colombia 2014. Photo Credit: Michel Piccaya / Shutterstock.com. "If hip hop is the street, [and] below the street there's earth,ÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
May 11, 2016
"Each box represents a coffin of a Wayuu. They didn't have the opportunity to smile." According to community leaders, 12,000 indigenous children under the age of 5 have died since 2012.
L.A. Weekly
May 2, 2016
More than 14,000 people have died of starvation, including many children. The indigenous tribe that lives in the north, the Wayuu, are basically being exterminated. "They're destroying our jungles, oceans and life. Our government is not doing anything ...
teleSUR English
March 28, 2016
Five children from the Indigenous Wayuu community in the Colombian department of La Guajira died from apparent malnutrition, a community leader reported Monday.
Newsday
March 16, 2016
Manny Matos is the chef-owner of Port Washington's new Cuban restaurant, Guajiro, which features a patio with a colorful mural.
Aljazeera.com
February 2, 2016
A glimmer of hope came in December, when the Inter-American Court of Human Rights publicly stated that the Colombian government must take measures to protect the human rights of the native Wayuu community and to stop the avoidable deaths of itsÃÂ ...
Venezuelanalysis.com
January 31, 2016
... prison gang leader," "We are in the hands of the street urchin Luis Salas," "I put a picture of the new minister in my wallet and 500 Bolivars disappeared," "The unwashed Luis Salas," "Monkey," "Thug," "Guajiro,2" "Face of a criminal", amongst ...
El Mundo
January 26, 2016
26-01-2016 07:00:00 p.m. | Francisco Molina.- Tres mujeres, quienes llevaban adheridos varias fajas de billetes de Bs.100, fueron detenidas por efectivos de la Guardia Nacional Bolivariana en la Guajira, municipio incurso en la zona de seguridad ...
El Mundo
January 27, 2016
26-01-2016 07:00:00 p.m. | Francisco Molina.- Tres mujeres, quienes llevaban adheridos varias fajas de billetes de Bs.100, fueron detenidas por efectivos de la Guardia Nacional Bolivariana en la Guajira, municipio incurso en la zona de seguridad ...
RedEye Chicago
January 25, 2016
And he said, "Well, he's a guajiro," which means "peasant." He really is from a small little town. I don't want to say it's a rags-to-riches story because that's super cliche.
Global Voices Online
January 5, 2016
This is where Venezuela's second largest indigenous population, the Warao people, can be found, who make up 7 percent of Venezuela's native peoples, after the 58 percent who belong to the Wayuu people in Zulia State, located in the western part of theÃÂ ...
North Platte Telegraph
December 27, 2015
He helps with the Veterans Appreciation Meal, helping set up and serve food to veterans on Veterans Day, sold Buena Onda bracelets that benefited the Wayuu Tribe of Columbia and also worked at the 20th Century Veterans Memorial, replacing old flags.
CNN International
December 8, 2015
Barely more than a hundred miles from the world's highest coastal mountain range, where glaciers cap 18,000-foot peaks just 25 miles from the sea, the La Guajira Desert receives just a handful of days of rain each year. But the blazing sun accentuates ...
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