Guatemalan soldiers pepper sprayed and struck with batons a large group of migrants who were attempting to walk across the country and eventually reach the US. The World’s Jorge Valencia reports.
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Deep in northern Colombia, amid the wetlands where the Magdalena and the Sucre rivers meet, sits the town of El Banco, where peak temperatures soar over 100 degrees and the humidity is inescapable.
It was along those riverbanks where Indigenous and people of African descent met some 200 years ago and began creating the musical rhythms now known as cumbia.
“Cumbia is the result of those cultures meeting and converging on the land,” Colombian singer Carlos Vives writes in a new book. “Cumbia is what brings us together.”
Vives’ book, “Cumbiana,” was published this month with the historian Guillermo Barreto, and issued a short documentary and an album earlier this year under the same name. His goal, he says: to highlight Colombian Indigenous peoples’ essential contributions to folklore and the importance of the rivers past and present.
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Mexican lawmakers approved a reform to the country's national security law in record time this week, aiming at curtailing the work foreign governments can do in the country. As The World's Jorge Valencia reports, the measure is a clear response to the DEA arresting one of Mexico's former defense ministers in Los Angeles earlier this year.