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Understand the right to self-government of indigenous and ethnic peoples, like a materialization of their right to self-determination. The Indigenous National Raizal Authority (INRA) is the latest expression of the self-government of the Raizal People, reviving their ancestral political institution that for some reason was marginated.  INRA started its establishment with the Board of Spiritual Councilors (2012), and the first provisional Raizal Territorial Council (2013); other bodies are yet to be constituted.

Understand the history from the arrival of the puritans on the Seaflower ship to Old Providence in 1630, the relation with the indigenous people of the Miskito Coast and the enslaved Africans, followed by nearly 200 years of the dispute between England and Spain over the Archipelago of San Andres, Old Providence, and Santa Catalina, as well as the resistance of the ancestral settlers of the territory, and the reasons why Colombia (from South America) irrupted into the story of the Raizal People. Understand the foundation of the cultural identity of the Raizal People. 

Understand the right to self-government of indigenous and ethnic peoples, like a materialization of their right to self-determination. The Indigenous National Raizal Authority (INRA) is the latest expression of the self-government of the Raizal People, reviving their ancestral political institution that for some reason was marginated.  INRA started its establishment with the Board of Spiritual Councilors (2012), and the first provisional Raizal Territorial Council (2013); other bodies are yet to be constituted.

Understand the history from the arrival of the puritans on the Seaflower ship to Old Providence in 1630, the relation with the indigenous people of the Miskito Coast and the enslaved Africans, followed by nearly 200 years of the dispute between England and Spain over the Archipelago of San Andres, Old Providence, and Santa Catalina, as well as the resistance of the ancestral settlers of the territory, and the reasons why Colombia (from South America) irrupted into the story of the Raizal People. Understand the foundation of the cultural identity of the Raizal People. 

An explanation of the first version of the Raizal Statute for autonomy ("Estatuto Raizal"), in the 1980s, and its outreach. Understand the retaken of the Estatuto Raizal after the takeover of the airport in San Andres island, led by the AMEN-SD Movement (1999), and the active role of the SOS Movement leaders; as well as the retaken of the process after the International Court of Justice' ruling over the territorial dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua (2012), the role of AMEN-SD Movement and the newborn Indigenous Raizal National Authority (INRA); and the participation of the Raizal Diaspora that started to get consolidated, after the destruction of the islands by hurricane IOTA (2020).

Do you know the reasons for so long delay toward the restoration of the territorial, self-determination, and self-government rights of the Raizal People?