My great aunt Zoilita, the last of 12 siblings, is a brown-skinned and curly-haired Wayuu woman of the Sijono clan. She arrived in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in the midst of the oil boom in the 1970s. A beautiful woman who, along with several cousins, organized cultural performances of Yonna (Wayuu traditional dance) for different events across […]

As Wayuu women we are conscious about the responsibility concerning the continuity of our Wayuu lineage. We have accepted the traditional confinement through which we are initiated and which brings us closer to the traditions connected to our fundamental roles in our culture. This confinement signals our transition from childhood to adolescence as it takes […]

Leiqui Uriana has directed documentaries such as El cedrón, made in the Sierra Maestra in Cuba, and her degree film Asuntos indígenas. She also participated as filmmaker in the documentary series Ser un ser humano (To Be A Human) (2011), produced by the EICTV with the support of six film schools from around the world, […]