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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 from a face streaked with ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Commerce: How Indigenous Stewards Are Helping Save Guna Yala, Panama
Panama's Guna Yala is, in many ways, the antithesis of the glossy magazine version of a Caribbean destination: The archipelago (formerly known as San Blas) has no resort hotels, no cruise ships, no ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Commerce: ‘In 10 years we may cease to exist’: rising seas and influx of tourists threaten to engulf Panama island
The Guna community has fought for survival for centuries. But modern threats are testing their cultural resilience In a church built on stilts facing the sea, two 19-year-old American Mormon priests ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Commerce: Nike ditches shoe design after Panama’s indigenous Guna protest
US sportswear giant Nike said Tuesday it was withdrawing its latest shoe after Panama's indigenous Guna community accused it of "pirating" a protected traditional design. Lawyers for the Guna said the ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Commerce: Vanishing act: Panama’s Guna people forced to move as the sea swallows their island – in pictures
Earlier this year, families from the Indigenous Guna people on the tiny island of Gardi Sugdub became the first to undergo a climate-related relocation by the Panamanian government because of the ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Commerce: How an Indigenous community in Panama is escaping rising seas
The Indigenous Guna people of Gardi Sugdub have plans to move to Panama's mainland this year In pictures from high above, the island of Gardi Sugdub resembles a container shipyard — small, brightly ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Commerce: In Panama, Indigenous Guna prepare for climate exodus from a second island home
The island of Uggubseni, located in Panama’s Guna Yala provincial-level Indigenous region, spent the month of February participating in region-wide celebrations to mark the centenary of a revolution ...