Droughts, floods and economic uncertainty: Portraits of the Wayuu people in northern Colombia
Climate change is rapidly altering the way of life of the Indigenous Wayuu people, a semi-nomadic Indigenous group living in the arid La Guajira region, which spans northern Colombia and Venezuela.
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Renewable energy ambitions in northern Colombia collide with Indigenous worries
CABO DE LA VELA, Colombia — Giant wind turbines tower over a cemetery sacred to Zoyla Velasquez and her Indigenous Wayuu community, native to the La Guajira region in northern Colombia.
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Indigenous migrants in northern Colombia battle worsening droughts and floods
She lives in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Riohacha, in northern Colombia’s arid, wind-swept region, where thousands of other Wayuu people, native to the La Guajira region spanning ...
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Droughts, floods and economic uncertainty: Portraits of the Wayuu people in northern Colombia
Alfredo Atencio, 69, is from the Wayuu community on the Colombian side of the border who lives in the Amanecer de la Paz neighborhood in Maicao with his daughter and her three children.
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Droughts, floods and economic uncertainty: Portraits of the Wayuu people in northern Colombia
RIOHACHA, Colombia (AP) — Climate change is rapidly altering the way of life of the Indigenous Wayuu people, a semi-nomadic Indigenous group living in the arid La Guajira region, which spans ...
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Droughts, floods and economic uncertainty: Portraits of the Wayuu people in northern Colombia
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