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Posted on 19. December, 2017
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Honduras In the western corner of Honduras live the 51,000 strong Ch’orti’ Maya people, cousins of the Cholán Mayans in the Guatemalan lowlands who were responsible for many of the city states like Tikal that the Mayans are famous for. The once mighty Copán…
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Posted on 16. December, 2017
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Belize The indigenous people in Belize are concentrated mainly in the south and west of the country, in the Corozal, Cayo, Toledo and Orange Walk districts. They are mostly of two main groups. Various Maya groups and the Garifuna who are mostly African in origin but have taken on Cariban language…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Belize, Chol, featured, Guatemala, Maya, Mexico, Mopan, Native Americans, Q'eqchi, Yucatan
Posted on 14. December, 2017
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Guatemala The territory of modern Guatemala once formed the core of the Maya civilization of the highlands. Most of the country was conquered by the Spanish in the 16th century, becoming part of the vice royalty of New Spain. Guatemala attained independence in 1821 as part of the Federal…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: featured, Guatemala, Ixil, Kiche, Mam, Maya, Mexico, pre-columbian, Quiche
Posted on 12. December, 2017
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Mexico (Chiapas) Inhabited mostly by a majority Maya populations of the closely related Tzotzil and Tzeltal ethnic groups in the highlands, the Chol of the forests in the north who inhabited the whole Usumacinta River valley in the Mayan Classic period, the Toholabal and…
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Posted on 10. December, 2017
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Mexico (Yucatán Peninsula) The Mayans in the Yucatán Peninsula call themselves simply Maya. Anthropologists and linguists call their language Yucatec Maya. People of Maya ancestry are about 3 million in the Peninsula but only about 1.2 million speak to varying degree the Maya language….
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Posted on 8. December, 2017
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This is the first part of what will become a seven part series about the modern day Maya peoples in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. Since the arrival of Spanish conquistadors to their lands from the 16th century onward, they have had…
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Source: Abby Martin: Insurgency and US Threats in Venezuela
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Source: Palestine Is Still The Issue by John Pilger
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4. July, 2017. Bernie Sanders for president of the US of A in 2020. Sounds too good to be true. Right. But, this could be become a reality if Bernie Sanders is up to it and the Democratic Party gives him an honest and…
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Posted on 29. June, 2017
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A Minnesota resident sent a letter to the governor. This oil madness must be stopped. Carol A. Hand The news from Standing Rock, North Dakota, is alarming. I’m not sure if the link below will take to you to a recent video of escalating…
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Posted on 8. June, 2017
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Québec, Quebec, Canada. 5. June, 2017. One wrong decision can sometimes have drastic consequences. Stay inside or go outside. Let’s toss a coin. The Battle of the Plains of Abraham in September 1769 was fought between French and British forces outside the strong walls…
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Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 29. May, 2017. This is a true story about a young Oglala Lakota Native American boy I became acquainted with in a grill party on Memorial Day. I met the 12 year old boy by the pool in the back…
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Lima, Peru 27.04.2017 Three meter high fences around your home, topped with electric wiring and crushed glass. Why does a nice upper class area like the Miraflores neighbourhood in Lima have to make their homes look like fortresses? A big part of the reason is…
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Lima, Peru 25.04.2017 In modern times in South America the media, TV and radio, is the ultimate tool of choice for spreading the Spanish language throughout the continent. Media that is in English or other languages is mercilessly and ridiculously dubbed in Spanish before…
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La Paz, Bolivia. April 7th, 2017. Bolivian history is a violent one. Marked by a vicious cycle of endless robbery by a few elite criollos of Spanish and European descended people who make up the upper class, especially in the east of the country….
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Category: Political Commentary
6. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
Posted on 19. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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Honduras In the western corner of Honduras live the 51,000 strong Ch’orti’ Maya people, cousins of the Cholán Mayans in the Guatemalan lowlands who were responsible for many of the city states like Tikal that the Mayans are famous for. The once mighty Copán…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Chorti, featured, Honduras, Maya, Mexico, pre-columbian
5. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
Posted on 16. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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Belize The indigenous people in Belize are concentrated mainly in the south and west of the country, in the Corozal, Cayo, Toledo and Orange Walk districts. They are mostly of two main groups. Various Maya groups and the Garifuna who are mostly African in origin but have taken on Cariban language…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Belize, Chol, featured, Guatemala, Maya, Mexico, Mopan, Native Americans, Q'eqchi, Yucatan
4. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
Posted on 14. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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Guatemala The territory of modern Guatemala once formed the core of the Maya civilization of the highlands. Most of the country was conquered by the Spanish in the 16th century, becoming part of the vice royalty of New Spain. Guatemala attained independence in 1821 as part of the Federal…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: featured, Guatemala, Ixil, Kiche, Mam, Maya, Mexico, pre-columbian, Quiche
3. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
Posted on 12. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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Mexico (Chiapas) Inhabited mostly by a majority Maya populations of the closely related Tzotzil and Tzeltal ethnic groups in the highlands, the Chol of the forests in the north who inhabited the whole Usumacinta River valley in the Mayan Classic period, the Toholabal and…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: featured, Maya, modern day Maya, Native Americans, pre-columbian
2. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
Posted on 10. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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Mexico (Yucatán Peninsula) The Mayans in the Yucatán Peninsula call themselves simply Maya. Anthropologists and linguists call their language Yucatec Maya. People of Maya ancestry are about 3 million in the Peninsula but only about 1.2 million speak to varying degree the Maya language….
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1. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
Posted on 8. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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This is the first part of what will become a seven part series about the modern day Maya peoples in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. Since the arrival of Spanish conquistadors to their lands from the 16th century onward, they have had…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: featured, loosing a culture, Maya, modern day Maya, Native Americans, pre-columbian, Yucatan
Mapuche Conflict: ‘People Feel Danger Every Day’.
Posted on 17. November, 2017 by Man in the World
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Check out @AdalbjornVonAda’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/AdalbjornVonAda/status/931518152520986624?s=09
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Category: Che (Mapuche), Political Commentary
Abby Martin: Insurgency and US Threats in Venezuela
Posted on 2. August, 2017 by Man in the World
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Palestine Is Still The Issue by John Pilger
Posted on 13. July, 2017 by Man in the World
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Source: Palestine Is Still The Issue by John Pilger
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Bernie Sanders 2020
Posted on 4. July, 2017 by Man in the World
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4. July, 2017. Bernie Sanders for president of the US of A in 2020. Sounds too good to be true. Right. But, this could be become a reality if Bernie Sanders is up to it and the Democratic Party gives him an honest and…
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Category: Political CommentaryTags: Bernie Sanders, Nordic countries, Northern Europe, US elections 2020, welfare
Standing Rock Update — Voices from the Margins
Posted on 29. June, 2017 by Man in the World
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A Minnesota resident sent a letter to the governor. This oil madness must be stopped. Carol A. Hand The news from Standing Rock, North Dakota, is alarming. I’m not sure if the link below will take to you to a recent video of escalating…
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Category: Oyáte (Sioux), Political Commentary
Ville de Québec – Histoire et Culture
Posted on 8. June, 2017 by Man in the World
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Québec, Quebec, Canada. 5. June, 2017. One wrong decision can sometimes have drastic consequences. Stay inside or go outside. Let’s toss a coin. The Battle of the Plains of Abraham in September 1769 was fought between French and British forces outside the strong walls…
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Category: Native Americans, Political Commentary, Travel
Loosing a Hair, Loosing a Culture Or, the Lakota Boy who Lost his Hair
Posted on 30. May, 2017 by Man in the World
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Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 29. May, 2017. This is a true story about a young Oglala Lakota Native American boy I became acquainted with in a grill party on Memorial Day. I met the 12 year old boy by the pool in the back…
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Category: Native Americans, Oyáte (Sioux), Political CommentaryTags: Lakota, long hair, loosing a culture, Oglala, Sioux
Being Poor in Peru
Posted on 27. April, 2017 by Man in the World
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Lima, Peru 27.04.2017 Three meter high fences around your home, topped with electric wiring and crushed glass. Why does a nice upper class area like the Miraflores neighbourhood in Lima have to make their homes look like fortresses? A big part of the reason is…
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Spanish, a Language of Oppression
Posted on 25. April, 2017 by Man in the World
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Lima, Peru 25.04.2017 In modern times in South America the media, TV and radio, is the ultimate tool of choice for spreading the Spanish language throughout the continent. Media that is in English or other languages is mercilessly and ridiculously dubbed in Spanish before…
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Bolivia, a New Dawn?
Posted on 8. April, 2017 by Man in the World
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La Paz, Bolivia. April 7th, 2017. Bolivian history is a violent one. Marked by a vicious cycle of endless robbery by a few elite criollos of Spanish and European descended people who make up the upper class, especially in the east of the country….
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Category: Aymara, Native Americans, Political Commentary, Quechua
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