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  • The celebrations in Pisac for the virgin of El Carmen take place every year. People from the area dress up in traditional costumes such as condors. <br />
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This essay is about the commercialization of the Incan culture in Cusco, Machu Picchu and all of the other towns and ruins that are part of the Incan Sacred Valley in the Andes of Peru.  Because of the large quantity of tourists that visit the sites year round, many natives have built their businesses around tourism. Everything "Incan" is offered and sold to tourists and tour guides invade every corner of this sacred sites.
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  • Worker´s building owned by the Chinese company  Shougang Hierro Peru, abandoned after job cuts years ago, in San Juan de Marcona, Peru. From 3500 workers in the 80s, less than 2000 opertate in the mines today. Only few families still live in this area of the city, the windows are walled up to avoid homeless families to move in. October 2009.
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  • Salvador, 27, an Ashaninka villager of Tsiquireni village, enters a hiding place to hunt birds using his bow and arrows, in the forests near Tsiquireni, Ene River, Peru. April 2012. Fishing, hunting, farming and gathering are the only ways of providing food to the village. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Members of a village go to collect bananas and sweet potatos to a farm in the forests. All the food they bring to the village is later shared among every villager. Tsiquireni, Ene River, Peru. April 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Rosa Sandoval clears the forest to farm yuca in an area near the village of Tsiquireni, Ene River. Peru. April 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Colombia, Leticia, 2010. Triple frontera. <br />
Es día de mercado. Desde Perú, una familia llega al puerto de Leticia para vender su cosecha de plátanos. Como los colombianos, pertenecen a la etnia Tikuna. Para ellos la frontera es imaginaria; comparten la misma cultura y hasta la adaptación a una nueva colonización: otras manifestaciones del cristianismo que trascienden el catolicismo que llegó con los españoles. Hoy en Amazonas conviven prácticas evangélicas, pentecostales y adventistas.  <br />
Triple border. <br />
It is market day. From Peru, a family arrives at the Port of Leticia to sell their banana harvest. As Colombians, they belong to the Tikuna ethnic group. For them the border is imaginary; they share the same culture and even the adaptations of the new colonization: other manifestations of Christianity that transcend Catholicism that arrived with the Spaniards. Today, in the Amazon, evangelical, Pentecostal and Adventist practices coexist.
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  • Colombia, Leticia, 2010. Puerto de Leticia. <br />
Leticia, ciudad capital del departamento del Amazonas. En su puerto se ubica la triple frontera entre Colombia, Perú y Brasil, y es allí donde termina al Sur el mapa colombiano. En este punto del río, se da uno de los más ricos intercambios culturales latinoamericanos y se comercializan los productos para la diaria subsistencia. Aquí fue donde, por primera vez, un europeo tuvo contacto con la etnia Tikuna. Francisco de Orellana también fue el primer conquistador en navegar el Río Amazonas desde los Andes hasta su desembocadura hace más de quinientos años.<br />
Port of Leticia. <br />
Leticia, the capital city of the Amazon.  Its port is located on the triple borders of Colombia , Peru and Brazil, and is there where the Southern Colombian border ends.  At this point of the river, is one of the richest Latin American cultural exchanges and a place where daily necessities are traded.  It was here where the first European had contact with the Tikuna tribe. Francisco de Orellana who was also the first conquistador to navigate from the Andes to the mouth of the Amazon River more than five hundred years ago.
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  • Sea birds, mostly Piqueros (Peruvian Booby) flying over Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.  The guano, bird dung used as an organic fertilizer has been collected for 150 years from the islands in the coast off Peru. Now, with bird´s population declining from 60 millions to 4 millions the collection of guano is coming to an end.
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  • A guano worker carries a sack of feathers and waste to throw it away into the sea, walking over the exposed rock after the guano that covered it was collected. The guano, bird dung used as an organic fertilizer has been collected for 150 years from the islands in the coast off Peru. Now, with bird´s population declining from 60 millions to 4 millions the collection of guano is coming to an end. Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • Sea birds, mostly Piqueros (Peruvian Booby) flying over Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.  The guano, bird dung used as an organic fertilizer has been collected for 150 years from the islands in the coast off Peru. Around a hundred of workers from a government company move to live in the island to collect the guano in an exhausting job, they stay there for months until the island is completely harvested, then they move to the next island. But these days, with bird´s population declining from 60 millions to 4 millions the collection of guano is coming to an end.
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  • A worker catches the chain to hang the sacks of guano as they load a ship from the "cabria" (installation from where the sacks of guano are loaded into ships only using gravity). Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • Workers relax in the afternoon at their dormitory in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • Workers relax in the afternoon at their dormitory in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • Sacks of raw guano are piled in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • A worker throw feathers away in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.  The walls were built to prevent the guano from falling into the sea
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  • Workers carrying sacks of guano in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009. The daily task for porters is to carry around 125 sacks of 50kg an average distance of 50mt per worker, so each porter carries 6.25 tons a day.
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  • Porters wait for a sack of guano to carry, Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, May 2008. The government-run company that harvests the guano, a strategic fertilizer that is later subsidiased to local farmers, is in a way the best protector of bird´s population. They have guards in almost every island to make sure that no one comes there to disturb the birds in their nests or to extract guano.
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  • Benjamin gives masato to children at the village of Tsiquireni, in the shores of Ene river. Masato is an alcoholic drink made of yuca and sweet potato. Peruvian amazon, April 2012. Every male adult villager is supposed to carry a gun all the time to protect from terrorists, a legacy from the old days of the war of shining path. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • A worker carries a sack of guano in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009. The daily task for porters is to carry around 125 sacks of 50kg an average distance of 50mt per worker, so each porter carries 6.25 tons a day.
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  • Ashaninka children watch the birds a hunter from their village just brought home after hunting them with a bow and arrow, in Tsiquireni, a village in the shore of Ene River just below Pakitzapango. The ashaninka live with no money, they farm and gather ther food from the forests and rivers that would be flooded by Pakitzapango dam if it is built displacing them.  Peruvian amazon, april 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Ashaninka children watch the Ene River in front of their village of Boca Sanibeni, in an area that would be flooded by Pakitzapango Dam, Peruvian amazon. April 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Victoria Kubirinketu, an Ashaninka woman, walks back to her village after collecting bananas and a banana flower (in her hands). <br />
With encroachment from settlers and speculators, and after a devastating war against Shining Path rebels a decade ago, the indigenous Ashaninkas’ hold is precarious. And they are now facing a new peril, the proposed 2,200-megawatt Pakitzapango hydroelectric dam, which would flood much of the Ene River valley. The project is part of a proposal for as many as five dams that under a 2010 energy agreement would generate more than 6,500 megawatts, primarily for export to neighboring Brazil. The dams would displace thousands of people in the process. April 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Laborers play "golpeado" betting the biscuits they get from their company at their dormitories in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • Sacks of raw guano are piled in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • Laborers play "golpeado" betting the biscuits they get from their company at their dormitories in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • Porters wait for a sack of guano to carry, Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, May 2008. The daily task for porters is to carry around 125 sacks of 50kg an average distance of 50mt per worker, so each porter carries 6.25 tons a day.
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  • Domingo Leon, 63, a Quechua from the higlands in Yungay collects guano in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009. The job is exhausting, they dig until the rock is exposed and then brush the last remains of guano until the entire island is just solid rock is exposed. The daily task is to collect around 35 sacks of 50kg per worker.
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  • Girls in front of Tsiquiereni village at the shores of Ene River. In the mountains background is the area of Pakitzapango, where Pakitzapango dam is planned. It would affect the livelihood of thousands of Ashaninka indigenous, who live in primitive conditions, with no money, and no other means of making a living other than living in the jungle. April 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • A house in Boca Sanibeni, an area that would be flooded by Pakitzapango Dam, Peruvian amazon. April 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Sacks of guano are loaded into ships from a "cabria" in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • A worker carries a sack of guano in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009. The daily task for porters is to carry around 125 sacks of 50kg an average distance of 50mt per worker, so each porter carries 6.25 tons a day.
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  • Porters wait for a sack of guano to carry, Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, May 2008. The daily task for porters is to carry around 125 sacks of 50kg an average distance of 50mt per worker, so each porter carries 6.25 tons a day. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • A worker carries a sack of guano in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009. The daily task for porters is to carry around 125 sacks of 50kg an average distance of 50mt per worker, so each porter carries 6.25 tons a day. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Porters wait for a sack of guano to carry, Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, May 2008.
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  • Youth play soccer in La Oroya next to the American-owned smelter Doe Run Peru. This photo was taken in April 10, 2009, when production was almost completelly suspended due to a financial crisis in the company, now it is still closed. The company claims that it was not able to carry out its environmental program, a violation of its agreement with the goverment arging economic reasons, in the meantime it was operating in defiant of enviromental regulations, in a city where many children have tested for high lead levels in their blood due to smelter pollution.
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  • Sacks of guano are loaded into ships from a "cabria" in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • Domingo Leon, 63, a Quechua from the higlands in Yungay collects guano in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009. They is using a brush and a "rasqueta", brushing the hill until the solid rock is exposed. The daily task is to collect around 35 sacks of 50kg.
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  • Indigenous woman on fire heated a container of corn chicha in Chincheros, Cuzco, Saturday, June 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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  • La madrugada del 2 de mayo de 1992, el grupo paramilitar Colina incursiono en diferentes viviendas del distrito Ancashino del Santa. Esa misma noche 9 personas fueron llevadas con rumbo desconocido bajo  la mirada impotente de sus familiares. 19 años después, enterrados a unos cuantos kilómetros del lugar de donde fueron secuestrados, los cadáveres de los nueve campesinos fueron encontrados y entregados a sus familiares para ser velados y luego enterrados. Así, finalizando uno de los capítulos mas  largos y doloroso que dejo la  dictadura de Alberto Fujimori ( hoy preso por  dos casos de violación de los derechos humanos).
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  • La madrugada del 2 de mayo de 1992, el grupo paramilitar Colina incursiono en diferentes viviendas del distrito Ancashino del Santa. Esa misma noche 9 personas fueron llevadas con rumbo desconocido bajo  la mirada impotente de sus familiares. 19 años después, enterrados a unos cuantos kilómetros del lugar de donde fueron secuestrados, los cadáveres de los nueve campesinos fueron encontrados y entregados a sus familiares para ser velados y luego enterrados. Así, finalizando uno de los capítulos mas  largos y doloroso que dejo la  dictadura de Alberto Fujimori ( hoy preso por  dos casos de violación de los derechos humanos).
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  • La madrugada del 2 de mayo de 1992, el grupo paramilitar Colina incursiono en diferentes viviendas del distrito Ancashino del Santa. Esa misma noche 9 personas fueron llevadas con rumbo desconocido bajo  la mirada impotente de sus familiares. 19 años después, enterrados a unos cuantos kilómetros del lugar de donde fueron secuestrados, los cadáveres de los nueve campesinos fueron encontrados y entregados a sus familiares para ser velados y luego enterrados. Así, finalizando uno de los capítulos mas  largos y doloroso que dejo la  dictadura de Alberto Fujimori ( hoy preso por  dos casos de violación de los derechos humanos).
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  • The Shawi people are a Peruvian ethnic group, which maintains with great vigor their mystic believes. Their relationship with nature is immersed in a series of myths and believes which rule their everyday life.  Living  in the Peruvian deep wood jungle, the Shawi community struggles to survive despite imminent westernization.
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  • The Shawi people are a Peruvian ethnic group, which maintains with great vigor their mystic believes. Their relationship with nature is immersed in a series of myths and believes which rule their everyday life.  Living  in the Peruvian deep wood jungle, the Shawi community struggles to survive despite imminent westernization.
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  • La madrugada del 2 de mayo de 1992, el grupo paramilitar Colina incursiono en diferentes viviendas del distrito Ancashino del Santa. Esa misma noche 9 personas fueron llevadas con rumbo desconocido bajo  la mirada impotente de sus familiares. 19 años después, enterrados a unos cuantos kilómetros del lugar de donde fueron secuestrados, los cadáveres de los nueve campesinos fueron encontrados y entregados a sus familiares para ser velados y luego enterrados. Así, finalizando uno de los capítulos mas  largos y doloroso que dejo la  dictadura de Alberto Fujimori ( hoy preso por  dos casos de violación de los derechos humanos).
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  • La madrugada del 2 de mayo de 1992, el grupo paramilitar Colina incursiono en diferentes viviendas del distrito Ancashino del Santa. Esa misma noche 9 personas fueron llevadas con rumbo desconocido bajo  la mirada impotente de sus familiares. 19 años después, enterrados a unos cuantos kilómetros del lugar de donde fueron secuestrados, los cadáveres de los nueve campesinos fueron encontrados y entregados a sus familiares para ser velados y luego enterrados. Así, finalizando uno de los capítulos mas  largos y doloroso que dejo la  dictadura de Alberto Fujimori ( hoy preso por  dos casos de violación de los derechos humanos).
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  • La madrugada del 2 de mayo de 1992, el grupo paramilitar Colina incursiono en diferentes viviendas del distrito Ancashino del Santa. Esa misma noche 9 personas fueron llevadas con rumbo desconocido bajo  la mirada impotente de sus familiares. 19 años después, enterrados a unos cuantos kilómetros del lugar de donde fueron secuestrados, los cadáveres de los nueve campesinos fueron encontrados y entregados a sus familiares para ser velados y luego enterrados. Así, finalizando uno de los capítulos mas  largos y doloroso que dejo la  dictadura de Alberto Fujimori ( hoy preso por  dos casos de violación de los derechos humanos).
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  • La madrugada del 2 de mayo de 1992, el grupo paramilitar Colina incursiono en diferentes viviendas del distrito Ancashino del Santa. Esa misma noche 9 personas fueron llevadas con rumbo desconocido bajo  la mirada impotente de sus familiares. 19 años después, enterrados a unos cuantos kilómetros del lugar de donde fueron secuestrados, los cadáveres de los nueve campesinos fueron encontrados y entregados a sus familiares para ser velados y luego enterrados. Así, finalizando uno de los capítulos mas  largos y doloroso que dejo la  dictadura de Alberto Fujimori ( hoy preso por  dos casos de violación de los derechos humanos).
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  • La madrugada del 2 de mayo de 1992, el grupo paramilitar Colina incursiono en diferentes viviendas del distrito Ancashino del Santa. Esa misma noche 9 personas fueron llevadas con rumbo desconocido bajo  la mirada impotente de sus familiares. 19 años después, enterrados a unos cuantos kilómetros del lugar de donde fueron secuestrados, los cadáveres de los nueve campesinos fueron encontrados y entregados a sus familiares para ser velados y luego enterrados. Así, finalizando uno de los capítulos mas  largos y doloroso que dejo la  dictadura de Alberto Fujimori ( hoy preso por  dos casos de violación de los derechos humanos).
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  • The Shawi people are a Peruvian ethnic group, which maintains with great vigor their mystic believes. Their relationship with nature is immersed in a series of myths and believes which rule their everyday life.  Living  in the Peruvian deep wood jungle, the Shawi community struggles to survive despite imminent westernization.
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  • The Shawi people are a Peruvian ethnic group, which maintains with great vigor their mystic believes. Their relationship with nature is immersed in a series of myths and believes which rule their everyday life.  Living  in the Peruvian deep wood jungle, the Shawi community struggles to survive despite imminent westernization.
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  • SHAWIS<br />
The Shawi people are a Peruvian ethnic group, which maintains with great vigor their mystic believes. Their relationship with nature is immersed in a series of myths and believes which rule their everyday life.  Living  in the Peruvian deep wood jungle, the Shawi community struggles to survive despite imminent westernization.
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  • The Shawi people are a Peruvian ethnic group, which maintains with great vigor their mystic believes. Their relationship with nature is immersed in a series of myths and believes which rule their everyday life.  Living  in the Peruvian deep wood jungle, the Shawi community struggles to survive despite imminent westernization.
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  • La madrugada del 2 de mayo de 1992, el grupo paramilitar Colina incursiono en diferentes viviendas del distrito Ancashino del Santa. Esa misma noche 9 personas fueron llevadas con rumbo desconocido bajo  la mirada impotente de sus familiares. 19 años después, enterrados a unos cuantos kilómetros del lugar de donde fueron secuestrados, los cadáveres de los nueve campesinos fueron encontrados y entregados a sus familiares para ser velados y luego enterrados. Así, finalizando uno de los capítulos mas  largos y doloroso que dejo la  dictadura de Alberto Fujimori ( hoy preso por  dos casos de violación de los derechos humanos).
    04-HM-Musuk-Nolte-08.JPG
  • La madrugada del 2 de mayo de 1992, el grupo paramilitar Colina incursiono en diferentes viviendas del distrito Ancashino del Santa. Esa misma noche 9 personas fueron llevadas con rumbo desconocido bajo  la mirada impotente de sus familiares. 19 años después, enterrados a unos cuantos kilómetros del lugar de donde fueron secuestrados, los cadáveres de los nueve campesinos fueron encontrados y entregados a sus familiares para ser velados y luego enterrados. Así, finalizando uno de los capítulos mas  largos y doloroso que dejo la  dictadura de Alberto Fujimori ( hoy preso por  dos casos de violación de los derechos humanos).
    04-HM-Musuk-Nolte-07.JPG
  • The Shawi people are a Peruvian ethnic group, which maintains with great vigor their mystic believes. Their relationship with nature is immersed in a series of myths and believes which rule their everyday life.  Living  in the Peruvian deep wood jungle, the Shawi community struggles to survive despite imminent westernization.
    LAT01-18-NolmM-A-05.JPG
  • La madrugada del 2 de mayo de 1992, el grupo paramilitar Colina incursiono en diferentes viviendas del distrito Ancashino del Santa. Esa misma noche 9 personas fueron llevadas con rumbo desconocido bajo  la mirada impotente de sus familiares. 19 años después, enterrados a unos cuantos kilómetros del lugar de donde fueron secuestrados, los cadáveres de los nueve campesinos fueron encontrados y entregados a sus familiares para ser velados y luego enterrados. Así, finalizando uno de los capítulos mas  largos y doloroso que dejo la  dictadura de Alberto Fujimori ( hoy preso por  dos casos de violación de los derechos humanos).
    04-HM-Musuk-Nolte-03.JPG
  • The Shawi people are a Peruvian ethnic group, which maintains with great vigor their mystic believes. Their relationship with nature is immersed in a series of myths and believes which rule their everyday life.  Living  in the Peruvian deep wood jungle, the Shawi community struggles to survive despite imminent westernization.
    LAT01-18-NolmM-A-03.JPG
  • Latin American Immigrants in Barcelona.<br />
The mother of Sandra (the bride) tells her grandson to be quiet during the wedding ceremony. Sandra (spanish) marries Carlos (ecuatorian) in Barcelona and they move to live in Ecuador with Carlos' 3 old year son Antoni. After a couple months Carlos said that he "didn't get used to" Ecuador and the family decided to move back to Barcelona again. They now live in one of the suburbs of Barcelona and Carlos works within the construction sector. His father (in the black suit) has however moved back to Ecuador and has built 2 houses and started a company that rents construction machinery.
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  • Latin American Immigrants in Barcelona.<br />
Danny and Emilio in the house of Emilo's mother (Paquita) before lunch. The economic crisis in 2008 affected them very hard because Danny was not able to find a full-time job and either Emilio, as he sufer from epilepsy. Emilio decided to sell his summer house in Costa Brava in Barcelona in order to be able to buy a new house in the Dominican Republic. Danny and Emilio later moved to live in the Dominican Republic with Danny's her 3 dauthers. Unfortunately the move was delayed more than a year becuase Emilio's mother didn't let him go. Emilio and Danny flew to the Dominican Republic this summer but had to come back to Barcelona again because Emilio's mother passed away. Unfortunately, when they got to back to the Dominican Republic, Emilio fell into a health crisis and passed away this November. Danny is now living both in the United States and the Dominican Republic with his 3 dauthers.
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  • Carlos (in the mirrow) from Ecuador supervises his friend Agustín from Paraguay during the renovation of a kitchen in a Barcelona apartment. Carlos came to Barcelona in 2000 to join his wife Flor who arrived 2 years earlier. When Flor came to Spain she worked to be able to send money in order for her family to come and join her. After one year living in a flat with 25 other persons, Carlos and Flor got their papers and were able to rent a flat and bring they 2 sons. Now Carlos has a small construction company and Flor keeps working in the same house since 1998.  Ecuatorians is the biggest group of latinamericans in Barcelona and in Spain. Official statistics estimate that there are between 350.000 to 500.000 ecuatorians in the country.
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  • The Paco<br />
<br />
The Paco is a drug that is killing some years miles of kids in Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Peru. Born in the suburbs of Buenos Aires shortly after the 2001 crisis, soon spread to other countries. Paco is done with the residue of cocaine mixed with more harmful substances such as dust or glass halogen lamps burned. In a few time dependence is total and you get to death, body slimming, teeth falling out, until I choke. The paco only costs 5 pesos in Argentina dose (one euro) and has a few seconds 1000 times stronger than regular cocaine. Most affected are the young kids from 12 to 17 years. The great tragedy is that this deadly drug was released from the poorest areas and is now becoming fashionable even in the middle class. Without some kind of unstoppable epidemic.<br />
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01) Lomas de Zamora, Argentina 2011. A guy is sleeping outside his house in the middle of an open sewer. People who use to smoke paco sleep during the day.<br />
02) Lima, Perù, 2011 A boy in an abandoned bulding. People spend all the night smoking Paco.<br />
03) Cartagena, Colombia, 2011 is the city with the biggest amount of young girls forced into prostitution. Most of these girls uses the money to buy drugs.<br />
04) Brazil, Salvador de Bahia, 2011. Guys on the street in the centre of the city.They need to smoke Paco all the night.<br />
05) Lima, Perù, 2011. Youg guys having breaskfast and smoking Paco and Crack.<br />
06) Brazil, Salvador de Bahia, 2011, a girl smokes Paco in his slums in the city center.<br />
07) Brazil, Salvador de Bahia, 2011. Very young guys on the street in the centre of the city. They are used to smoke Paco all the night.<br />
08) Lomas de Zamora, Argentina 2011. A man is selling Paco to young boys in front of children.<br />
09) Lomas de Zamora, Argentina 2011. A guy smoking paco in an a abandoned building.<br />
10) Brazil, Salvador de Bahia, 2011. A doped prostitute is wandering in the city.<br />
11) Brazil, Salvador de Bahia, 2011. The police arrest Paco dealers.<br />
12) Lomas de Zamora. Buenos Aires, April 2012. A
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  • El Huayno con Arpa es uno de los generos musicales mas ovacionados en el Peru. De origen y arraigo en los sectores rurales, es con la migracion de la poblacion campesina hacia las zonas urbanas, en especial a la capital Lima, que ocurre el desplazamiento de los cantos y musicas andinas. La pupularidad del Huayno ha destado desde hace decadas la proliferacion de jovenes cantantes especialmente adolescentes que desean iniciar una carrera musical. Respaldadas por sus padres y/o madres; y alentadas por el exito de algunas interpretes ya consagradas, componen sus primeras canciones y adquieren sus primeros vestuarios. Asumen carreras como solistas en las urbanizaciones de la periferie(pueblos jovenes)  de la ciudad de Lima. El costo de cada vestuario oscila alrededor de los 200 dolares. Pequeñas tarimas en fiestas de barrio son escenario de sus primeros conciertos en busqueda de la soñada popularidad y exito economico.
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  • The Fallout of the Guano Fever, portraying the current movement of guano, a sad reflection of what once was a bonanza poorly taken advantage of.<br />
Guano is an organic fertilizer once found in abundance on more than 20 islands off the Peruvian coastline, where the dry climate preserves the droppings of seabirds.<br />
It was a treasure for the Incas, the cause of a war, and once a backbone of Peru’s economy.<br />
Now as the world hungers for sustainable resources, bird excrement is once again as prized as gold.
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  • The Fallout of the Guano Fever, portraying the current movement of guano, a sad reflection of what once was a bonanza poorly taken advantage of.<br />
Guano is an organic fertilizer once found in abundance on more than 20 islands off the Peruvian coastline, where the dry climate preserves the droppings of seabirds.<br />
It was a treasure for the Incas, the cause of a war, and once a backbone of Peru’s economy.<br />
Now as the world hungers for sustainable resources, bird excrement is once again as prized as gold.
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  • Agentes del orden detuvieron a 25 personas que se encontraban buscadas por la justicia peruana, tras intervenir a 1,278 personas en el Callao, en un gran operativo que contó con más de 300 efectivos de diferentes divisiones de la Policía Nacional del Perú
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  • Agentes del orden detuvieron a 25 personas que se encontraban buscadas por la justicia peruana, tras intervenir a 1,278 personas en el Callao, en un gran operativo que contó con más de 300 efectivos de diferentes divisiones de la Policía Nacional del Perú
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  • Asesinato por ajuste de cuentas en la provincia constitucional del Callao, Perú.
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  • Lima Perù, diciembre 2006 chicos que se despiertan despues al droga en la calle de la ciudad.
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  • Lima, Perù, dicembre 2006, un chico vive en un rincon de una casa abandonada con otros chicos y con perros. Se drogan toda la noche.
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  • Latin American Immigrants in Barcelona.<br />
A "ahumadora" lights incense during the peruvian religious prosecion called: "El Cristo de los Milagros" (the Christ of the Miracles) in El Raval in Barcelona. Every year since 1994 the peruvian collective hosts this procession in Barcelona, not just in honor of the story of this crucifix, that miraculously survived an earthquake in Perú in the XVIII century, but also in memory of the peruvian culture and country.
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  • Colombia, Amazonas, 2010.El baño de Yuché. <br />
Yuché, Dios de la comunidad Tikuna, ha envejecido y, mirándose en el agua, se da cuenta de que se acerca la muerte. Así comienza el mito aborigen. En la foto, Jesús Rodríguez enjuaga su rostro joven en el Río Amazonas, pero no logra borrar la marca del huito que los tikunas llevan a su cuerpo después de extraer la pintura del fruto selvático. Por esto los conocen como “pieles negras”. <br />
Yuché bath. <br />
Yuché,  Tikuna’s God of community, has aged and looking in the water,  realizes that death is approaching. So begins the Aboriginal myth. In the photo, Jesus Rodriguez rinses his young face in the Amazon River, but he does not manage to erase the mark of ‘huito’ that tikunas takes to their body after extracting the painting of the sylvan fruit.  This is why they are known as “black skins”. <br />
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ENSAYO: UN FRÁGIL TESORO , AMAZONAS. / AMAZON FRAGIL TREASURE<br />
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Amanece. Aves y reptiles de todas las especies comienzan a cantar. El río está tibio y hace calor. El Amazonas, que nunca deja de correr, ahora cobra vida con la llegada del día. Mujeres y hombres se acercan a su orilla. Lavan, comparten, pescan, trabajan, aman y, en algunos casos, también trafican en ésta, el área con mayor biodiversidad del mundo, y el río más caudaloso y extenso. En sus puertos, la Latinoamérica amazónica mezcla sus culturas e intercambia productos, entre ellos, los que la convierten en zona de peligro: cocaína y armas también encuentran refugio en la espesura de la selva. Los tikuna son los habitantes de estas tierras ardientes, donde las altas temperaturas casi sobre el nivel del mar desafían a la raza más fuerte. Conquistados por los españoles estos indígenas resistieron hasta la masacre. Hoy solo quedan 27 mil tikunas repartidos en tres países: Colombia, Perú y Brasil. En las fotografías, se retrata la cotidianidad del tikuna colombiano que, a quinientos años de su colonización, conserva poco de su auténtica
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  • Lima Perù 2006
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  • Latin American Immigrants in Barcelona.<br />
One of the most crowded events in Barcelona, hosted by the latinamerican collectives is the celebration of the independency from Spain in the 19th century. Every year countries like Ecuador, Perú and Colombia, together with the local government, organise this event in the Forum Plaza. The event offers music, dance, tipical food, folklore and celebrities from South America, who come particularily for this occasion. It is estimated that each county's independence celebraton gathers about 35.000 people. In this picture - the celebration of the peruvian collective.
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  • Lima Perù 2006
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