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By Euan Wallace UGGUBSENI and ISBERYALA, Guna Yala, Panama — “Our ancestors fought for this land,” says Jair Goporas, 21. He leans forwards into the dim glow of a bare bulb, his eyes shining ...
Gardi Sugdub is one of around 50 islands that are home to the Indigenous Guna people, who have built a life devoted to the ocean from fishing to tourism. But they were once people of the forests ...
Palacio, a member of the Ngabe Buglé group, Panama's largest Indigenous community, said that up to now, Indigenous peoples had been observing lockdown and social distancing measures.
Make this trip to Panama's Emberá people, and you witness not just some folkloristic performance, but the very culture by which these indigenous people live and die. Andreas Drouve/dpa ...
Panama is sending its first Indigenous woman ever to the Miss Universe contest. And in Latin America, where pageants are a big deal, that's a big deal.
The Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca is the largest Indigenous territory in the country, covering more than 9% of Panama’s land area and encompassing two Indigenous groups, the Ngäbe and the Buglé.
On a tiny island off the coast of Panama, about 1,200 Indigenous locals known as the Guna people are waiting to leave. The island, which is called Carti Sugtupu, is over the size of four football ...
Panama’s Indigenous Naso kingdom has spent decades fighting for land rights in the form of a comarca. But after finally getting one in 2020, struggles to demarcate and protect the land have ...
Panama estimates that it will cost about $1.2 billion to relocate the 38,000 or so inhabitants who will face rising sea levels in the short- and medium-term, said Ligia Castro, climate change ...
The Indigenous Guna people have occupied these Caribbean islands since around the mid-1800s, when they abandoned the coastal jungle area near what is now the Panama-Colombia border to establish ...