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Also in
this section:  The Americas' first nations network Particularly
since the election of Evo Morales, a union leader of the Aymara
ethnicity, as president of Bolivia --- but by no means starting with
that event --- people of the Americas' original nations have been
building ever stronger hemispheric networks, quite frequently hidden in
plain sight from the press, politicians and general public.
Panama being the maritime Crossroads of the World and increasingly the aviation Hub of the Americas, and having a substantial and politically volatile indigenous population, a lot of the networking takes place here. Native activists from the shores of the Arctic Ocean to the tip of Tierra del Fuego and many points in between have passed through in recent years, for a variety of conferences, conventions, celebrations and congresses. The exchanges run the gamut from things cultural and educational through traditional healers' gatherings to the highly and explicitly political. Here we have Moira Millan, a Mapuche woman from southern Argentina, who was guest of honor at a Kuna art gallery in Panama City this past October. The Mapuches are the principal non-white minority in Chile and have a smaller but just as ancient presence in Argentina, with poverty and discrimination being their general lot in both countries. Photo by José F. Ponce Also in
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