Najanamu-A Cry From Within
by Stephanie Kennedy, Sounds and Colors, UK - Culture in Venezuela is as fluid and as diverse as its ever-stretching landscape. There exists no single identity, but a series of explorations of heritage and modernity that have come to define a country both proud of its varying folklores as of its sky-scraping bastions of western affluence in its major cities.For the Warao, a thirty-five thousand strong indigenous body that holds fort in the delta of the Orinoco River their culture, is still alive, although dangerously slipping away from them as missionaries, European crowns, lawless pirates and local politics have tried to erode the very nature of their civilisation

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