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Finding Central America’s Afro-Descendants
posted (November 21, 2018)
And while that meeting finished today, yesterday Belize along with its SICA partners held a meeting centered on people of afro-descent. It is an interesting topic and from what we gather, it was mainly geared at celebrating the accomplishments of people of African descent around the world. Apart from that, the SICA team will organize initiatives that will promote equality and inclusion among people of African descent.

Hon. Wilfred Elrington, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
"Sometimes we tend to think that the people of African descendants are a minority in the world. The truth is that Africans are the second largest population in the world. It's over 1.3 billion Africans lives in Africa. We are not talking about the people of African descendants in Brazil, which has more than Nairobi, Kenya and the rest of us who exist in the Americas in general. So that people of African descendants and Africans are a numerous people and we have had an exceeding proud tradition. Even today, people of African descendants have held the highest posts in the most powerful country in the world. You only have to think back of Barrack Obama, who really is president of the United States. His father was from Kenya and of course when you think in terms of great people like Nelson Mandela, and people like Martin Luther King and we can go on to numerate the great in science, in technology and sports - people of African descendant have in fact paid a tremendous role in the development of society. So we are really not a marginalize people. We are not to see ourselves as a marginalize people. We are in fact people who have had a tremendous history, a tremendous future and we should in fact reach out to all our partners in development. So we are very happy that the United Nations declared this decade, the decade of the people of African descendants."

Jorge Cabrera, Advisor of Secretary General
"Let me give you a special regard from the general secretary of SICA, who is a very interesting the general organization the strengthening of this work of action that you decide in 2014 in Placencia with the resolution number 16 and to strengthen our capabilities at the regional and national level to implement in the different territories these priorities that you already decide."

The UN General Assembly proclaimed 2015-2024 The International Decade for People of African Descent. The theme of the Decade is "People of African descent: recognition, justice and development.

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