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Garifuna people, with new job opportunities thanks to tourism
The Garifuna are an ethnic group living in the Caribbean coast of Guatemala, Belize and Honduras. Dressed in Black leather, they are the descendants of freed Haitian slaves, and today there are about 200,000 people living on the coast. They speak Garifuna, a Creole language, with French words mixed in, as well as some English and Spanish. The Garifuna people are a mixture of African and Caribbean. In Guatemala, they only live in the village of Livingston, at the mouth of the Rio Dulce. If you are going to the capital for work, you will be neglected, for racism.They prefer to migrate to Belize or the US.
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