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News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Culture: Migrant Wave Disrupts Life in Panama’s Darién Gap

News channel or source: https://www.wsj.com/story/migrant-wave-disrupts-life-in-panamas-darien-gap-2967c512

Published on: Saturday 08 July 2023

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 » Culture: Colombian indigenous culture flourishes again in Panama

News channel or source: https://www.unhcr.org/news/colombian-indigenous-culture-flourishes-again-panama

Published on: Tuesday 29 May 2007

VISTA ALLEGRE, Panama, May 30 (UNHCR) - A year after they fled Colombia, 11 families of the Wounaan indigenous group are beginning to feel safe again in Panama. After months of wandering, the 48 ...

News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Culture: Discover Panama's Rich Culture

News channel or source: https://www.travelpulse.com/voices/blogs/discover-panamas-rich-culture

Published on: Sunday 30 October 2022

Panama is a meeting point and a "mosaic of cultures," where the country's cultures coexist, maintaining their own values, beliefs and principles as well as their identity. There are seven indigenous ...

News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Culture: Panama’s indigenous groups take land fight to the international stage

News channel or source: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/panamas-indigenous-groups-take-land-fight-to-the-international-stage/

Published on: Wednesday 01 August 2018

Wounaan and Embera indigenous communities occupying four territories in eastern Panama are taking their nearly five-year land-titling battle with the government to the Inter-American Commission on ...

News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Culture: Masses of Migrants Overwhelm Panama’s Darién Gap

News channel or source: https://www.wsj.com/world/masses-of-migrants-overwhelm-panamas-darien-gap-73d032d7

Published on: Monday 26 June 2023

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 » Culture: Biden-Harris open border is destroying an indigenous tribe’s land and way of life

News channel or source: https://nypost.com/2024/08/26/opinion/biden-harris-open-border-is-destroying-an-indigenous-tribes-land-and-way-of-life/

Published on: Monday 26 August 2024

METETI, Panama — Not far from this small town, the 19,000-mile-long Pan-American Highway ends at a wall of jungle — the Darien Gap, a notorious wilderness that stretches from Colombia into Panama. In ...