Using a mix of qualitative data collected in 2009 2011, the article analyzes how a large Guatemalan construction materials firm, Cementos Progreso, sought a social license to operate in the indigenous municipality of San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, and with what results.
In order to address the problem of high maternal mortality in Chiapas, the State of Chiapas Secretary of Health built a birthing house (known as Casa Materna, or "Mother's House") adjacent to a hospital in the primarily indigenous municipality of San Andrés Larraínzar.
The great majority of those studies, though, are about migrants in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and/or they are about non-indigenous peoples, such as Latinos, Asians, etc. Indigenous municipalities are defined as those in which at least 70%% of the population are indigenous.
Outright rejection of all local government initiatives, particularly in predominantly indigenous municipalities, meant underachievement by the micro-regional planning initiative in these municipalities.
Nahualá is a 100-percent indigenous Mayan K'iché municipality, with a population of approximately 70,000 spread over 100 townships; the central "head town," where the region congregates, has a population of approximately 3,000.
This study intended to assess the extent of shallow dug wells (SDWs) utilization and contribution of IK on management of SAs of indigenous people of Dodoma Municipality.
The incidence of TB in the urban population of Dourados is 44 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and the incidence among the indigenous people of this municipality is even higher, at 230 per 100,000 inhabitants [ 20].
Taking into account the different municipalities, this indigenous contribution ranges from 62.4% in Alajeró to 48.1% in San Sebastián (Supplementary Table S7).
Fireworks were set off in Viana a municipality within the indigenous Akroá-Gamela preservation in Maranhão, Brazil at 6 AM sharp.
The majority of the population in every one of Mexico's 100 poorest municipalities is of indigenous descent, says Mr Abreu.
The three bodies seen in the newspaper were found last Thursday morning at Nepaja, one of the 140 mostly indigenous villages contained within the Chilapa municipality.
