WASPAM, Nicaragua – Just this month, at least nine Miskito people have been killed, 20 have been wounded and hundreds have fled their ancestral lands in eastern Nicaragua. The Miskito people, ...
These 40-foot boats are handmade and expertly navigated by the Miskito people. (Photo: Jason Chinn/Yemaya) The indigenous Miskito people of Nicaragua sail on hand-made boats at night. You will find no ...
Moravian Pastor Antonio Sandoval Herrera wants to use music to bring about the rebirth of this Miskito Indian community on the banks of the Coco River, the waterway marking the border with Honduras in ...
In this 2010 archive photo indigenous Miskitos purchase green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) for food at the port of Puerto Cabezas, along Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas BOGOTA, May ...
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – The government of Honduras has granted title to over 1.6 million acres (almost 655,000 hectares) along the country's border with Nicaragua and the Caribbean coast to Miskito ...
LA CEIBA, Honduras - At a modest clinic down a dirt road, there are rocking chairs on the porch and a hyperbaric chamber in the front room where Dr. Elmer Mejia treats deep-sea lobster divers who ...
2002-09-29 04:00:00 PDT Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua-- Clebas Thompson was crawling around in the murky haze 140 feet below the surface of the Caribbean looking for spiny lobster when Liwa Mairin -- the ...
Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The hostility between the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and the Miskito Indians ...
One Sunday afternoon in April last year, Delvin Rosalio, an indigenous rights attorney in Nicaragua, says a man attacked him for his advocacy as he left his home in Puerto Cabezas. “Hey, I know you! I ...
IN terms of distance from the nearest land, the remotest island in the Caribbean is Grand Cayman, whose nearest neighbor—the two smaller islands of its own group excepted—is the Isle of Pines, one ...
KAMLA, PUERTO CABEZAS – The outbreak of an enigmatic illness that was tormenting indigenous communities with bouts of collective hysteria appears to have subsided after a lynch mob recently captured ...
Land lies in Honduras%27 northeastern corner Mining%2C gas%2C oil and lumber companies eyeing area would need to talk to Indians Honduras agreed to grant title to Miskitos in 1859 treaty with Britain ...
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