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afrodiaspores: Afro-Chilean family, date unknown Chileans who identify as blacks live mainly in Arica y Parinacota, the northernmost region in this long narrow South American country. The region is known for its cultural diversity. There are also Afro-Chilean families in the north-central region of Coquimbo, principally in the towns of Salamanca and Ovalle… The Afro-Chilean community is “invisible and ignored at the national level,” concurred José Manuel de Ferrari with Corporación Participa, a non-governmental organisation that supports the Afro-Chilean Alliance in its efforts to influence politics. “Their institutional and legal inexistence leads to their exclusion from public policies that target other vulnerable groups, like indigenous peoples,” and this translates into “marginalisation and discrimination,” he told IPS. Báez said that when he travels to Santiago, people think he is from another country, like Peru, Ecuador, Brazil or Cuba. On one occasion he was nearly attacked by a group of neo-Nazis because of the colour of his skin, he said. “People of African descent have been in Chile since the dawn of colonialism,” de Ferrari said. “Towards the end of the colonial period, blacks were estimated to represent more than 12 percent of the population, and up to 20 percent in some regions.” Later, as a result of the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific, which pitted Chile against Peru and Bolivia, the Peruvian province of Arica was annexed by Chile and its significant black population became part of this country.

afrodiaspores:

Afro-Chilean family, date unknown

Chileans who identify as blacks live mainly in Arica y Parinacota, the northernmost region in this long narrow South American country. The region is known for its cultural diversity. There are also Afro-Chilean families in the north-central region of Coquimbo, principally in the towns of Salamanca and Ovalle…

The Afro-Chilean community is “invisible and ignored at the national level,” concurred José Manuel de Ferrari with Corporación Participa, a non-governmental organisation that supports the Afro-Chilean Alliance in its efforts to influence politics.

“Their institutional and legal inexistence leads to their exclusion from public policies that target other vulnerable groups, like indigenous peoples,” and this translates into “marginalisation and discrimination,” he told IPS.

Báez said that when he travels to Santiago, people think he is from another country, like Peru, Ecuador, Brazil or Cuba. On one occasion he was nearly attacked by a group of neo-Nazis because of the colour of his skin, he said.

“People of African descent have been in Chile since the dawn of colonialism,” de Ferrari said. “Towards the end of the colonial period, blacks were estimated to represent more than 12 percent of the population, and up to 20 percent in some regions.”

Later, as a result of the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific, which pitted Chile against Peru and Bolivia, the Peruvian province of Arica was annexed by Chile and its significant black population became part of this country.

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