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This is a love-and-hate story being played out in real life in the Yucutan Peninsula. On the one hand we have the indigenous Mayans of the Yucatán Peninsula who have a fascinating and world renown history of cities, pyramids, remarkable science achievements, writing, roads,…
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Posted on 27. January, 2018
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Being a woman in Guatemala isn’t easy. The small central American country has one of the highest rates of femicide in the world, with at least two women murdered every day. Being an indigenous woman in Guatemala is even harder. In addition to the…
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Posted on 20. December, 2017
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El Salvador El Salvador lies on the Pacific coast and is the smallest of the Central American countries. Most of the country rests on a fertile volcanic plateau. The development of coffee estates led to the slow but continuous dissolution of most of the…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Achi, El Salvador, featured, Honduras, Lenca, Maya, Native Americans, Pipil, pre-columbian
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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NahuaYucatán, Mexico. 13. May, 2017. Uxmal and Kabah were two of the largest Maya cities in the Yucatan from 700-1200 CE. Connected by a grand 18 km. long raised pedestrian causaway five meters wide with great monumental arches at each end. Grand roads connected…
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Mayans in the Modern World: People With a Celebrated History Downtrodden in the Present
Posted on 3. July, 2018 by Man in the World
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This is a love-and-hate story being played out in real life in the Yucutan Peninsula. On the one hand we have the indigenous Mayans of the Yucatán Peninsula who have a fascinating and world renown history of cities, pyramids, remarkable science achievements, writing, roads,…
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Category: Che (Mapuche), Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Mapuche, Maya, Mexico, modern day Maya, Native Americans, Yucatan
Gender violence in Guatemala: ‘A woman’s struggle is everyone’s struggle’
Posted on 27. January, 2018 by Man in the World
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Being a woman in Guatemala isn’t easy. The small central American country has one of the highest rates of femicide in the world, with at least two women murdered every day. Being an indigenous woman in Guatemala is even harder. In addition to the…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Guatemala, Mam, Maya, Quiche
Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 7
Posted on 20. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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El Salvador El Salvador lies on the Pacific coast and is the smallest of the Central American countries. Most of the country rests on a fertile volcanic plateau. The development of coffee estates led to the slow but continuous dissolution of most of the…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Achi, El Salvador, featured, Honduras, Lenca, Maya, Native Americans, Pipil, pre-columbian
Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 6
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
Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 5
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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Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 4
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
Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 3
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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Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 2
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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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: featured, Maya, modern day Maya, Native Americans, pre-columbian, Yucatan
Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 1
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
Magical Uxmal and Kabah
Posted on 16. May, 2017 by Man in the World
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NahuaYucatán, Mexico. 13. May, 2017. Uxmal and Kabah were two of the largest Maya cities in the Yucatan from 700-1200 CE. Connected by a grand 18 km. long raised pedestrian causaway five meters wide with great monumental arches at each end. Grand roads connected…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, TravelTags: Kabah, Maya, Mexico, Uxmal, Yucatan
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