I thought they were brown. I was watching the movie, and I kept wondering if he had gone to Africa. But the name of the place was in Spanish.... Etc etc.
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The filming was done in Belize where there is a rather large population of descendants of former slaves imported from The Congo.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize)
So,
1) not South America, but Central America.
2) Yes, there are a lot of people of Indiginous African descent in Central America.
Not that there aren't also folks of Indiginous African descent in South America,too. While there I met some.
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Ofcourse there are black people in central America, unless you think Jamaicans originated in China. It wasn't just the USA that Europeans brought Africans too, wherever there was a crop of something valuable you would find Africans, and central America is the home of tobacco, coffee and sugar.
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