Recently, I had the opportunity to meet Garifuna professor and lawyer Mario Ellington Lambe.
We met and spoke while taking part in a conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that dealt with racism in Latin America and the Caribbean. We were able to talk about the history of the Garifuna people, their background, culture, and current situation.The Garifunas, explained Ellington, are part of the extraordinary and marvelous history of the Caribbean. The Carib and Arawak peoples were banished from Venezuela in the 17th century and sent to the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
During this second war, Satuye was assassinated by the enslavers, but he remained a hero to the Garifuna and was officially declared a national hero of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on March 14, 2002. With the failure of these insurrections, though, Afrodescendant and Indigenous people were expelled to the island of Roatán, which today is part of the Republic of Honduras.
The Garifuna arrived in Guatemala in 1802. The largest Garifuna community in Guatemala is in the port city of Livingston, Izabal department, Puerto Barrios. The Guatemalan Civil War saw armed conflict between Marxist guerrillas and the Guatemalan army from 1960 through 1996. Many Garifuna youth and children were forcibly recruited to join the armed forces, which led to almost 200,000 deaths.
During a July 2021 visit to Guatemala, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris expressed her desire to contribute to the fight against corruption at that time. But the main objective was to put up a wall against migration, offering $48 million to invest in the economy of that country.
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