The indigenous weavers who aim for empowerment over exploitation

For Colombian entrepreneur Laura Chica, compliments on the Wayuu bag she was using during a trip to Europe sparked a business ...
Global Voices Online

New Wayuu documentary tells the story of a return to ancestral lands in Colombia

Sergio Brito's family was not condemned to living in the desert, they were banished from it. They fought to return for three generations. The short documentary in which Brito tells the story of the ...
The New York Times

How Kite Surfing in Remote Colombia Changed a Boy. And a Village.

The sport came to Beto Gomez’s small Indigenous town nearly two decades ago. Despite some resistance back home, he is now the world’s only professional kite surfer with Wayuu roots. The sport came to ...
BBC

The indigenous weavers who aim for empowerment over exploitation

In the Colombian city of Riohacha there are numerous street sellers of traditional bags called mochilas For every handwoven bag she sells on the palm-lined promenade of Riohacha, a city on Colombia's ...