Renzo Devia
Country that impacted you: Haiti
Favorite place visited: Colombia, Honduras and the Dominican Republic
Alicia Anabel Santos
Country that impacted you: Haiti
Favorite place visited: San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia and the Domincan Republic—my home.
Camilo Mendoza
Country that impacted you: Colombia
Favorite Place Visited: Colombia and Honduras, and good ol' Livingston.
Leonardo Reales
Country that impacted you: Colombia and Brazil.
Favorite place visited: Cartagena and Sao Paulo.
Jasmyne Cintron
Country that impacted you: Bluefields, Nicaragua
Favorite place visited: Costa Rica, the warmth of its people was contagious.
We would like to thank the following people and organizations for helping us make this project possible
The Producers would like to thank all of the countries that welcomed them. To all of the experts, government officials, and Afro-Latino communities throughout Latin America.
A special thank you to those who helped with production, accommodations and scheduling of interviews throughout Latin America: COLOMBIA: Profetas / Pablo and Antombo, Luis Towers and Familia, Chocquibtown / Goyo, Tostao and DJ Slow, Wendy Nedd and Familia, Juan de Dios Mosquera, Karen Virginia Isajar and the guys of Magdalena Medio for this beatiful website. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Juan Rodriguez Acosta, Daurys Geronimo – photography, Nadal Walcott. HAITI: Micheline and Richie. PUERTO RICO: Jasmyne I. Cintron, Cesar Feliciano, Jesus Cepeda, Gilda Hernandez, Yolanda Diaz at the Rain Forrest & Ocean View at Hacienda Carabali. HONDURAS: George and Clara Martinez, DJ Smash. MEXICO: Sagrario Cruz Carretero, Sal Rojas – photographer, Padre Glyn Jemmot. PANAMA: Kafu Banton, Rastanini. PERU: Renzo & Richie – Listen Clothing. CUBA: Arsenio and Lalita. URUGUAY: Oscar Montaño. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Clare Ribando Seelke, Humberto Garces, Felicia Montgomery, Vanessa Martir – Alicia’s creative writing partner, Judy De La Cruz – Intern - Assistant Editor, Emily Chow – Intern – Research Assistant, Courtney Aucone – for being the most supportive daughter.
We would like to thank our Saint Anaisa (Santa Ana) for guiding us, Archangel San Miguel and Orisha Eleggua for protecting us. Thank you to King Changó and Santa Barbara for giving us strength on our journeys. San Martin, thank you for providing us bountiful health. Archangel Rafael we thank you for the wisdom and continued blessings during our work. To Archangel Gabriel we thank you for providing us with creativity during this project and to Orisha Oshosi for the same attributes. Thank you to the Queen of the sea—Yemeya who guides and protects us everyday. Obatala, we thank you for instilling in us compassion, ethics, honor, respect and peace in our hearts. Oshun we are forever grateful for power of love we have been able to share with the world and we thank the Creator (Olofi) “We are children of the Seven African powers”.
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