the native population...

This is just another way to put it, and it's simple.

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Note added at 2003-06-26 16:50:47 (GMT)
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The capital \"t\" is a tytpo.

...the indigenous people [population]...

My 2 cent's worth Teresa:-)
terry

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Note added at 2003-06-25 18:14:12 (GMT)
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it could also be \"Peace Agreement\":

Approx 82,000 Google hits for \"peace treaty\".
Approx 107,000 Google hits for \"peace agreement\".


t

Or
Although the Peace Treaty was ratified five years ago, the native population still...

I think that would be the most common way of expressing it in English.

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Note added at 2003-06-25 22:43:30 (GMT)
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In the replay to Jane I meant: I translate ideas not words.

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Note added at 2003-06-25 23:14:01 (GMT)
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The important thing in this sentence is to show a contrast:
1) there have been five years of peace
BUT 2) no normal lifestyle has been achieved

or
ALTHOUGH 1), 2)

five years after the signing of the Peace agreements, the Indigenous population - specially women in the rural districts - have been unable to overcome traditional discrimination. Their lives are characterised by change (aquí no sé bien como traducir ruptura - literalmente no me parece adecuado), in the form of social political and economic crises on one hand and natural disasters on the other.


teresa, te traduzco hasta aquí, porque el resto del texto no es coherente con lo anterior. los desastres naturales difícilmente pueden ser consecuencia del conflicto de clases - en todo caso de la gestión medioambiental, cuando los desastres se deben a inundaciones en parajes desertificados por la acción humana, pero ¿como puede atribuirse la erupción de un volcán o un terremoto a la lucha de clases? en todo caso, sus consecuencias pueden estar asociadas pero sólo las consecuencias.

suerte, saludos y sonrisas,

álvaro

the indigenous population, particularly women in the rural areas, have not been able to overcome the historical pattern of exclusion. Their lives undergo changes and interruptions brought about by sociopolitical and economic crises on the one hand and natural tragedies on the other. Both of these are produced by cultural, racial, ethnic, and generational class conflict, which increases their marginalization and worsens their situation and their position as political subjects.


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Note added at 2003-06-26 13:31:52 (GMT)
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Several points:

The question of tense is solved by using the gerund.

The awkwardness of the long sentence is solved by breaking it in two.

\'Las tragedias naturales\' are probably not natural disasters (which would include earthquakes, floods, wildfires, etc.) since they are referred to as \'producto de un conflicto de clases\', unless the text makes clear that the point is that their poverty makes the effects of these disasters worse. More likely the term would refer to such intractable effects of poverty as ill health, malnutrition, infant mortality and shortened adult life span.

( a vuelo de pájaro)

specially the women of rural areas, have not been able to overcome the historic tendency of being excluded by society. Their lives run through changes and breakups due to, on one hand,to the socio-political and economic crisis, and on the other hand,to natural disasters, both as a result of cultural, racial, ethnic and generational class conflicts, which increases their margenalization and worsen their standing as a political entity.

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Note added at 2003-06-27 03:36:58 (GMT)
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Deseo entender que los desastres naturales son una parte de los problemas que los atrasan organizativa y económicamente en su lucha por la intgración social.

Suerte Teresa !