POLITICS AND ENVIRONNEMENT IN NICARAGUAN MOSKITIA

Resumen

How to understand the relationship between politics, environment
and territory in the Nicaraguan Mosquitia? This territory symbolizes the
paradoxical situation of the Amerindian peoples at the beginning of the 21st
century. On the one hand, we can see a broad movement for the recognition
of the rights of indigenous peoples, mainly through Convention 169 adopted
in 1989 by the International Labour Organization and which enshrines the
right to land of native peoples. But, on the other hand, there is an advance
of agricultural or mining fronts that reach regions hitherto isolated. In
all Latin American countries, there has been a proliferation of land and
environmental conflicts, phenomena that are linked to an unprecedented
level of corruption. The current situation of the Mosquitia and its inhabitants
symbolizes at best the complexity of the fate of Indian populations
at the beginning of the 21st century.