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The religion involves possessions, drumming, healing ceremonies, and others. Venezuelan Yuyu is an Afro-Diasporic religion from Venezuela that originates from West African Vodun, Yoruba Isese and Kongo religion. The original religion is still practiced by some rural communities on the Caribbean coast of Central and Western Venezuela but it has ...
Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born American, Nobel Prize of Medicine in 1980. Sara Bendahan, the first Venezuelan woman to complete her medical degree in that country. Maruja Clavier, was one of the first Venezuelan nuclear oncologists.
Another group of whites who were born in Venezuela were originally called "Creole", representing 20% of the population: they were mostly from the Canary Islands and they worked mainly in petty trade. The other two smaller groups were the original inhabitants and indigenous blacks brought from Africa: they were about 5% of the population.
In Venezuela, like other South American countries, economic inequality often breaks along ethnic and racial lines. [2] A 2013 Swedish academic study stated that Venezuela was the most racist country in the Americas, [ 2 ] followed by the Dominican Republic . [ 2 ]
Other Venezuelans, Mestizos, White Venezuelan, Afro-Venezuelan, Amerindian, Spaniards, Pardos, Mestizo Colombian, Latin Americans, Cocoa panyol In Venezuela , Moreno ( Spanish : Swarthy, Brown, Dark) is a broad term to describe those Venezuelans , who tend to be multiracial , typically those who are genetically intermediate between Africans ...
Manuel Blum – Venezuelan-born computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995; Emma Brossard – sociologist expert in oil and gas themes; Florinda Donner – Venezuelan anthropologist; José Esparza – Venezuelan virologist known for his efforts to promote the international development and testing of vaccines against HIV/AIDS
A Black man named Esteban el Negro (Steven the Black), a North African Moor from Spain, searched for the fabled city of Cíbola with Cabeza de Vaca. Veracruz, Campeche, Pánuco and Acapulco were the main ports for the entrance of African slaves. In the past, offspring of Black African/Amerindian mixtures were called jarocho (wild pig), chino or ...
In May 2017, Venezuelan protesters were confronted by a group of Chileans who showed their support for the government of Nicolás Maduro in the vicinity of the Venezuelan embassy in Santiago. [23] Some months later, Venezuelans protesting in the same place were beaten and robbed by Chilean communists.