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Mamo Calixto Suarez to speak on Arhuaco wisdom at ICTA-UAB

14 Nov 2016
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Arhuaco’s community mamo Calixto Suarez will visit the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) to share the message of the mamos, spiritual leaders of the community, on the importance of living according to the Law of Origin to maintain harmony and balance in the world and for the good of humanity.
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Calixto Suarez Villafañe, Ambassador of Peace and Man of Wisdom, and Director of the Program for Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the international level for chrio.ca. He is spokesperson of the Arhuaco people, descendants of the Tairona civilization, located in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia. He will be coming to Spain with the support of the international community, for the process of peace and for the management of the defense and recovery of ancestral and culture lands, which are so essential for mankind.

Calixto Suarez will be giving a talk on “Natural Values Expressed Through Humans” next Tuesday 15 November at 10 a.m. within the framework of the seminar “Two approaches to Colombian Guajira”. This will be followed by the talk “Biogeography and Patterns of Composition and Distribution of the Leopard Bush in Northern South America” by researcher José Eduardo Fuentes.

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