Tradition and tenacity: How Wayuu women sustain La Guajira

Mira Cohen explores the situation for Wayuu people who live in an arid peninsula in northern Colombia. La Guajira region, a rapidly desertifying region shared by northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela, has been home to the Wayuu indigenous people for centuries. With the presence of one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world contaminating their land and regional government corruption, Wayuu must take matters into their own hands. Wayuu women uplift their communities by revitalizing indigenous ontology in the fight to preserve their ancestral lands.

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