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Also, a sprinkling of sumak you could find it at Middle-Eastern stores on top not only adds a tart zing, but a beautiful reddish-purple color.
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Ecuador's radical new constitution features a chapter on the "Rights for Nature" that begins by invoking the indigenous concept of sumak kawsay (good living) and the Andean Earth Goddess:
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The aim of this new constitution is to attain the "sumak kawsay," Quechua words meaning "a good life."
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A new form of citizen coexistence, in diversity and harmony with nature, with the intent of attaining a better form of life, el sumak kawsay
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In regards to development, it recognizes the "group of economic, political, social, cultural, and environmental systems that guarantees the realization of the balanced life, sumak kawsay."
CounterPunch 2008
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Seek "Vivir bien" -- living well (what is known in Ecuador as "sumak kawsay," living fully), instead of living better at the expense of others Evo pointed out that Bolivia's recently drafted constitution "is to support a new pact with all humanity and Pachamama, from the heart of the Andes, from the South, for all the world."
CounterPunch 2008
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Seek "Vivir bien" -- living well (what is known in Ecuador as "sumak kawsay," living fully), instead of living better at the expense of others Evo pointed out that Bolivia's recently drafted constitution "is to support a new pact with all humanity and Pachamama, from the heart of the Andes, from the South, for all the world."
CounterPunch 2008
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- "ñuka estados unidos manta kani" - I am from the United States - "ñuka Sangolquipi kawsani, Kichwata sumak yachanapi Trentpa yachani" - I live in Sangolqui and study Kichwa at the University of Trent.
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