{"id":988659,"date":"2023-04-11T16:08:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/puamazonico.org\/we-are\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:02:09","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/puam.org\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">\n\n\t<p>The Amazon University Program (PUAM) is an initiative at the service of education that seeks to promote and have a greater scope in the access to a dignified and quality higher education, with a multidisciplinary approach of intercultural dialogue, valuing the <em>cosmoexistences<\/em> and territorial wisdoms, and with the desire to serve the particular reality of the peoples and communities belonging to the Pan-Amazonian region to be subjects of their history and to collaborate in the defense of life and towards and a social transformation from their own identities.<\/p>\n\t<p>This integral 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