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OSORIO MERCADO, Hloreley  e  SERRA VAZQUEZ, Luis Héctor. Mestizo Nicaragua versus multi-ethnic Nicaragua: the case of the Caribbean Coast. Perf. latinoam. [online]. 2021, vol.29, n.58, 00003.  Epub 19-Jun-2023. ISSN 0188-7653.  https://doi.org/10.18504/pl2958-003-2021.

Nicaragua experienced Spanish-British colonization and various miscegenations. But in the hegemonic imaginary, miscegenation refers only to the cross between the indigenous and Hispanic. This article comparatively discusses the discourse and experience of the project of mestizo Nicaragua (1894-1987) that standardizes the people with the mestizo ethnicity and the project of multiethnic Nicaragua (1987-2019) recognizes that the people of Nicaragua are indigenous, Afro-descendant and mestizo. It is argued that the project of mestizo Nicaragua is still valid and has the political-economic-cultural mechanisms that could eliminate the indigenous and Afrodescendants of the Caribbean Coast.

Palavras-chave : people; ethnicity; miscegenation; nation; multi-ethnicity; Nicaragua; Caribbean Coast.