A Journey into Five Decades of Struggles for Indigenous Self-Determination in the Americas: An Interview with Armstrong A. Wiggins

Abstract

Introduction Together with the Special Issue on “Social Leaders in Colombia” published in the IdeAs Journal No. 17, Laetitia Braconnier Moreno and Laura Cahier met with Armstrong A. Wiggins to discuss his journey as an Indigenous leader and human rights defender. Born in Nicaragua, he is a Miskito Indian from the village of Karata, La Moskitia. At the age of 18, he became President of his Karata community and, in 1972, he became a founding member of AIPROMISU, the first regional Indian orga...