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Richard Arghiris

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Here's where you can experience Indigenous culture in El Salvador

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By Richard Arghiris
| Wanderlust (magazine) Verified
El Salvador’s rolling volcanic hills are peppered with ancient pyramids, ceremonial centres, Palaeolithic cave paintings and enigmatic statuary depicting the gods of rain, maize and fertility. But its present-day Indigenous Peoples are far more elusive. The 2007 national census found that just 0.2% of the population – around 13,000 people – identify as Indigenous, suggesting a culture on the brink of extinction.
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Mexico: Maya beekeepers declare an environmental emergency after finding scores of dead bees

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By Jennifer Kennedy, Richard Arghiris
| Lacuna Magazine Verified
Intensive farming has devastated the bee population in the Yucatán Peninsula. Jennifer Kennedy and Richard Arghiris relay the story of Mexico’s historic Maya beekeepers, the impact of pesticides on their sacred practices, and what is being done to resist the destruction of their culture and livelihood.
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How and where to experience Nicaragua's Indigenous culture

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By Richard Arghiris
| Wanderlust (magazine) Verified
The maypole dances performed in the sultryCaribbean port of Bluefields, Nicaragua, are several shades raunchier than the gentle gambols staged on English village greens each spring. Sweaty, rum-soaked and pulsing withraw energy, the Bluefields maypole shakes to riotous drum-beats that hail from distant Africa. Yet this is just one part ofa Caribbean coast that is as culturally diverse as it is fragile.Two autonomous regions, north and south, mark the fringes of eastern Nicaragua.
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