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El Cabichuí
''El Cabichuí'' was an early biweekly Paraguayan governmental trench newspaper, written and printed near the front during the Siege of Humaitá in the Paraguayan War, aimed at being read by the Paraguayan Army soldiery. Directed by Juan Crisóstomo Centurión and Natalicio Talavera, it had text both in Guarani and Spanish. A bare month after Humaitá fell, it stopped being printed, as the war once again became mobile; by that point, it had run for 95 issues. History ''El Cabichuí'' was a very early example of a trench newspaper, born in a context where battle lines had been stagnant for more than a year during the Siege of Humaitá in the Paraguayan War. It was idealized by the Paraguayan president, Francisco Solano López, as a tool for improving morale. It was made via woodcut with a rustic press in López's headquarters (initially at Paso Pucú, and later at San Fernando, in today's Central Department). The name Cabichuí refers to a species of black wasp common in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afro-Brazilian
Afro-Brazilians (; ), also known as Black Brazilians (), are Brazilians of total or predominantly Sub-Saharan African ancestry. Most multiracial Brazilians also have a range of degree of African ancestry. Brazilians whose African features are more evident are generally seen by others as Blacks and may identify themselves as such, while the ones with less noticeable African features may not be seen as such. However, Brazilians rarely use the term "Afro-Brazilian" as a term of ethnic identity and never in informal discourse. ''Black people#Brazil, Preto'' ("black") and ''Pardo Brazilians, pardo'' ("brown/mixed") are among five ethnic categories used by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), along with ''White Brazilians, branco'' ("white"), ''Asian Brazilians, amarelo'' ("yellow", ethnic East Asian), and ''Indigenous peoples in Brazil, indígena'' (indigenous). In the 2022 census, 20.7 million Brazilians (10,2% of the population) identified as ''preto'', while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
