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On that particular trip, however, unnerved by the increasingly challenging terrain and a path that seemed more rumor than reality, we gave up after the first day. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ History , Biography , Panama

Simplified: During their 1998 trek attempt in Panama, the author, his father, and his brother gave up after the first day due to challenging terrain and an unclea...

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His name was Jerónimo Dequía, a 46-year-old farmer and fisherman from Mulatupu. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ People , Biography , Panama

Simplified: The guide for the author's trek was Jerónimo Dequía González, a 46-year-old farmer and fisherman from Mulatupu.

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Unusual for the Guna, Dequía was of mixed background — his father was Emberá, Panama’s other major Indigenous group, enemies of the Guna in generations past and forest people through and through. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ History , People , Biography , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: The guide Jerónimo Dequía has a mixed background with an Emberá father; the Emberá are another major Indigenous group in Panama and were enemies of th...

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It was the road to Mordí, the one the men had been cutting by hand for 13 years. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ Construction , Infrastructure , Panama

Simplified: As of the article's publication in 2026, a road to Mordí in Panama's Gunayala region had been under construction by hand for 13 years.

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Already the forests of eastern Panama have been pushed back to fragile protected zones and mountains like the Continental Divide. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , Deforestation , Panama

Simplified: The forests of eastern Panama have been pushed back to fragile protected zones and mountains like the Continental Divide.

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Later, I also spoke with Catherine Potvin, a professor of biology at McGill University and an expert on old forest. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Science , Biography , Academia

Simplified: Catherine Potvin is a professor of biology at McGill University and an expert on old forests.

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the cook, 29-year-old Eudelio Chiari. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ People , Biography , Panama

Simplified: The cook for the author's trek was Eudelio Chiari, who was 29 years old.

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“You have bridges going up all over eastern Panama,” she says; some are funded by local governments or private companies, with little oversight. 0.950

👤 Indra Candanedo 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , Infrastructure , Panama

Simplified: Indra Candanedo, director of the conservation group Alianza por Matusagaratí, stated that bridges are being built throughout eastern Panama, with some...

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Here in 1698, the Kingdom of Scotland attempted to found its first outpost abroad. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Panama , Colonialism , Scotland

Simplified: In 1698, the Kingdom of Scotland attempted to establish its first overseas outpost at Puerto Escocés in modern-day Panama.

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’Tis a very wet country,” wrote Lionel Wafer, an English pirate who spent four months stranded with the Guna only years before the Scots and published an account of the experience. 1.000

👤 Lionel Wafer 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Panama , Exploration

Simplified: Lionel Wafer, an English pirate who was stranded with the Guna people in Panama for four months shortly before the Scottish Darien scheme, wrote in a...

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The calamity, which had been financed by private investors, helped cause an economic crash and forced Scotland to join the United Kingdom. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , History , United Kingdom , Scotland

Simplified: The failure of the Darien scheme, which was financed by private investors, contributed to an economic crash in Scotland and was a factor that led to S...

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to excavate the colony’s graveyard, the Guna staved them off by demanding money for a research permit. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ History , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: The Guna people prevented the excavation of a historical colony's graveyard by demanding money for a research permit.

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His name was Edgardo Linares, and he was on vacation from teaching high school in Panama City. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ People , Biography , Panama

Simplified: Edgardo Linares, a high school teacher from Panama City, was on vacation in an abandoned Guna village during the author's visit.

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At the chicha, celebrants consume inna, a sugarcane-based beverage fermented in clay pots. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ Culture , Food and Drink , Guna people

Simplified: During a Guna 'chicha' celebration, participants consume 'inna', a sugarcane-based beverage fermented in clay pots.

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Chichas are major events that require weeks of preparation and can last for days. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Culture , Panama , Rituals , Guna people

Simplified: Among the Guna people, chichas, which are female puberty ceremonies, are major events that require weeks of preparation and can last for days.

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Puerto Suggunyaa Inabiginya used to be called Puerto Escocés, or Scottish Harbor, after one of the most spectacular disasters in the history of colonialism. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , History , Panama

Simplified: The location in Panama known as Puerto Suggunyaa Inabiginya was formerly called Puerto Escocés, or Scottish Harbor.

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His name was Rodelick Valdes Richards, the author of multiple articles in the Panamanian press about the Interconexión. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Journalism , Panama , Interconexión project

Simplified: Rodelick Valdes Richards has authored multiple articles in the Panamanian press about the Interconexión project.

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In the morning, Federico and I boarded a 27-year-old Cessna, a six-seater with a single propeller, duct-taped vents and a part-time pilot wearing flip-flops. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Transportation , Aviation , Panama

Simplified: The author and his companion flew to Gunayala in a 27-year-old, six-seater Cessna aircraft that had a single propeller and duct-taped vents.

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Panama has said it supports the Guna’s road — the country’s energy secretary, Rodrigo Rodríguez, said the 2027 budget includes the funding for it — but has long tried to embed it within ongoing negoti... 1.000

👤 Rodrigo Rodríguez 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Finance , Budget , Panama , Guna people

Simplified: Panama’s energy secretary, Rodrigo Rodríguez, said that the country's 2027 budget includes funding for the Guna people's road project.

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The men belonged to a commission appointed by the Gunayala General Congress, the supreme political authority. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Government , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: The men the author met in Panama City belonged to a commission appointed by the Gunayala General Congress, which is the supreme political authority fo...

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