00:00Welcome back to From the South. Venezuela has an ancestral pulse that resonates in
00:20indigenous communities like Te Cariña who proudly keep their heritage alive.
00:25Our Chris Buen and Andrea Romero will show us up in another episode on Venezuela on the Move,
00:32the deep meeting behind the Cariña's most solemn ritual, the acatopo, the contiguous join of their signature dance,
00:41the mare mare, and the magistrate of woman, what went into their Mauritian palm hamcot.
00:49The Cariña are direct descendants of the Caribe, the first inhabitants of Venezuela.
00:56Their culture is a heritage of pride and self-determination.
01:04The Cariña indigenous people have been here since ancient times because when what they called the Guquita arrived,
01:11we already had our indigenous culture, our songs, our dances. That didn't come from anywhere else.
01:16It was created by ourselves. It was born here and it remains here.
01:20This deep ancestral root is honored each year in one of their most solemn ceremonies, acatopo,
01:28a sacred three-day celebration filled with love and reunion with ancestors and the holy innocence.
01:34It's a custom from our grandparents. Every November 1st, we celebrate here the Day of the Dead,
01:44which for us is the acatopo, the Day of the Dead, of the Innocents.
01:51Here children don't dance, as they say, because they are saints, the holy innocence.
01:59So here, the custom is that they come to collect their alms, the bananas, the food.
02:06The acatopo marks the respect for those who have gone, while marimer is a dance that highlights the festive expression of the community.
02:16We dance every time there's an activity in our community.
02:26We pass it down from generation to generation.
02:32We develop it in each community, in the schools, at cultural events, and as children grow,
02:43they learn those traditional cariña dances.
02:50The cariña also weave. The mohrichala, a palm-rich ecosystem, is their livelihood,
02:55because from the fibers of its palms come the hammock.
02:58Rosa tells us how hammock is made remembering her husband.
03:02We went to the mohrichal in the morning. He would cut the mohricha palms, and we brought them,
03:11and I'd sit under a little tree to extract the fibers.
03:17This is the actual core from where you take them out. Then you set the fibers to dry in the sun.
03:25After they dry, you grab them and bring them here. As you see, you twist them on your legs or over a strip made out of rubber.
03:38And after twisting them, you get this, as you see, and then you start weaving, and you have the hammock.
03:49Making a hammock requires skill and around a kilo of fiber. This craft is their economic independence,
04:01and the elders are in charge of passing their knowledge to the youngest.
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04:20The Dominican Electricity Transmission Company informed that generations units in San Pedro de Macor.
04:27Do you still have many jobs?
04:30No, that's just lacking.
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04:39I seek best and best given that it is going to be so far again in time when my fosterheid is open.
04:42What do you see on the solves for the pain?
04:46As you can see, here's an awful lot.
04:48A long time you get to my memory on the learner,
04:51Where are you working it?
04:52It's more beautiful than what you want.
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