The Afro-Mexican population are often overlooked in Mexico’s cultural mosaic, but this year marks a statistical first
When Bulmaro García encounters military checkpoints in Mexico’s southern Guerrero state, soldiers sometimes ask him to sing the national anthem to prove his nationality.
García, a black man from the remote Costa Chica region, always refuses, and instead schools the soldiers – usually from other parts of Mexico – in local history.
Source: ‘We exist. We’re here’: Afro-Mexicans make the census after long struggle for recognition
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