Yapatera, descendientes de la esclavitud
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Dates2017 - Ongoing
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Author
- Topics Portrait, Social Issues, Documentary
- Location Piura, Peru
YAPATERA, DESCENDIENTES DE LA ESCLAVITUD
Currently, the largest number of Afro-descendants is in the departments of Lima, Ica and Piura; places that by their agricultural development concentrated a large number of slaves. In Piura, specifically, there is Yapatera, a people of African descent that emerges from the vestiges of a former sugar plantation from which sadness and oblivion are inherited as a general epidemic.
Yapatera is committed to subsistence agriculture and incipient trade thanks to which its inhabitants survive under the shadow of malnutrition and infant mortality. With these problems, there is an enemy that makes them prisoners of their minds and their pains, discrimination.
A phenomenon that limits the interaction and development of condemned by the color of the skin. According to a study by Unicef and the ONG Plan International, there are 7,600 inhabitants whose ethnic origin has generated discriminatory treatment. This has forced the majority of young people to leave their hometown and go out in search of new opportunities, leaving their father and grandparents in solitude. The face of Yapatera, today, reflects the loss of hope and family dismemberment of a people resigned to adversity and oblivion, as in Macondo but without the magic of García Márquez.
