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The Garifunas, who just last year had reason to hope that the historic land-title disputes that threaten their centuries-long tenure in Honduras were at an end, now fear renewed battles for control of their properties. The problem, from the Garifuna point of view, is that recent legislation that promised to legitimize individual titles fails to recognize their communal ownership systems and is more about internationally driven development schemes than legalization of their tenancy.
Garifunas are descendants of survivors of a 1635 wreck of two Spanish ships near the West Indies island of St. Vincent. These blacks, intended for slavery, intermarried with Arawak-speaking Carib peoples, becoming the Garinagu people, now known as Garifuna. In 1795, the British relocated them to the Honduran island of Roatan, from where they populated the coast from Belize to Nicaragua. Today they number around 200,000 in Honduras, 3% of the population. Most live in 36 communities in the northernmost departments: Gracias a Dios, Colon, Atlantida, and Cortes.
Perpetual aggression, internal...
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