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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 » Politics: Panama’s Indigenous Families Relocate Amid Rising Sea Levels
Panama’s government faces mounting pressure to relocate more Indigenous Guna families from low-lying Caribbean islands as sea levels continue to rise, building on the 2024 move of over 1,200 residents ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Politics: Panama’s Gardí Sugdub Becomes a Climate Migration Case as Sea Levels Rise
The laughter of children running through the alleys of Gardí Sugdub is no longer heard. Everything changed a year ago when nearly all of the island’s Indigenous inhabitants fled this tiny Panamanian ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Politics: 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 ...