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Raizal
The Raizals are a Protestant Afro-Caribbean ethnic group, speaking the San Andres-Providencia Creole, an English Creole, living in the Archipelago of Saint Andrew, Providence (also called Old Providence) and Saint Catherine, presently the Colombian San Andres y Providencia Department, off the Nicaraguan Miskito Coast. They are recognized by the Colombian authorities as one of the Afro-Colombian ethnic groups under the multicultural policy led since 1991.
Separatism
In 1903 the local Raizal population rejected an offer from the USA to separate from Colombia, in the wake of Panama. However, the policy followed by successive Colombian governments, trying to modify the ethnic ...
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