Panama News » Embera Wounaan News Panama » Embera-Wounaan: Migrant Wave Disrupts Life in Panama’s Darién Gap
The roadless Darién Gap was for centuries an almost impenetrable and pristine strip of land connecting what is now Panama and Colombia, inhabited by the indigenous Emberá and Wounaan people. Now, tens ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan: Migrants enriched this Indigenous village in Panama. What happens now that they're gone?
BAJO CHIQUITO, Panama — No roads lead to this tiny Indigenous community deep in the jungle of the Darién Gap, where a tsunami of U.S.-bound migrants has abruptly slowed to a trickle. The only way to ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan: Masses of Migrants Overwhelm Panama’s Darién Gap
CANAÁN, Panama—When thunder claps in this dense jungle, indigenous people living along the banks of once-pristine rivers now brace for floods that wash up mountains of sodden garbage and at times, the ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan: Biden-Harris open border is destroying an indigenous tribe’s land and way of life
Members of the Embera-Wounnaan tribe taking migrants on a boat through the Darien Gap in Panama. Todd Bensman METETI, Panama — Not far from this small town, the 19,000-mile-long Pan-American Highway ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan: Biden-Harris border policies wreak havoc on indigenous tribe, says expert: ‘Pushed aside and destroyed’
The Biden administration’s border policies have helped contribute to the destruction of indigenous tribes in Central and South America, according to one expert. Panama’s indigenous Embera-Wounnaan ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan: US-bound migrants enriched this Indigenous village. What happens now that they're gone?
BAJO CHIQUITO, Panama — No roads lead to this tiny Indigenous community deep in the jungle of the Darién Gap, where a tsunami of U.S.-bound migrants has abruptly slowed to a trickle. The only way to ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan: US-bound migrants enriched this Indigenous village. What happens now that they're gone?
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. It is part of a project on reverse migration by Arizona Republic reporter Daniel Gonzalez and El Paso Times visual journalist Omar Ornelas. BAJO ...