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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.

It's surprising when you get to Livingston, there are many more women than men, nearly all working-age men have gone to try their luck in the U.S.. Livingston can only be reached by boat, and is a town that seems lost, where job opportunities are limited, but now it is being given new breath to the people thanks to tourism. There are some hotels as well as restaurants where you eat traditional food. The town fair is in late September where there are celebrations.
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