Worldfocus: "Political Awakening" for Indigenous Groups in Latin America

Worldfocus
November 19, 2009

AS/COA’s Christopher Sabatini speaks with Worldfocus about the growing political activism by Latin America’s indigenous groups, which collectively represent about 11 percent of Latin America's overall population. “Those 11 percent are important because they also represent an overwhelming majority of the poor in Latin America…Centuries of discrimination and prejudice have really blocked their access to economic rights,” says Sabatini. As a result it has become imperative for indigenous groups to become politically active in order to secure not simply economic, but social and environmental justice.



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