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One of the commission members, a high school teacher and historian named Simón Herrera, shook my hand. ... Like many Guna, he had attended college, including a semester at Tulane. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Biography

Simplified: Simón Herrera, a member of the Guna commission for the Interconexión project, is a high school teacher and historian who attended college, including a...

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In the early 2000s, Mordí residents would hike through the jungle for days to reach Mulatupu, where some dropped off their children at the school and others traded smoked iguana and peccary for sacks... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Trade , History , Panama , Guna people

Simplified: In the early 2000s, residents of the Panamanian village of Mordí would hike for days to reach Mulatupu to attend school or trade goods like smoked igu...

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In 2011, it was finally paved, and while it remains a light-duty, low-volume road, Gunayala was forever changed. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Infrastructure , Panama , Guna people

Simplified: The 19-mile dirt road offshoot of the Pan-American Highway into the Guna reserve in Panama was paved in 2011 and remains a light-duty, low-volume road...

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They say they have requested Panama’s support for a modern two-lane highway, estimated to cost more than $100 million, that they would design themselves; without it, their machete work is likely to ta... 1.000

👤 Guna leaders 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Finance , Infrastructure , Panama , Guna people

Simplified: Guna leaders from the Mulatupu area say they have requested support from Panama's government for a modern two-lane highway they would design, which is...

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Last February I flew to Panama City and met up with Federico Rios, a frequent photographer for The Times. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Journalism , Biography

Simplified: In February 2026, author Ben Ryder Howe flew to Panama City and met with Federico Rios, a photographer for The New York Times.

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For decades, Mulatupu, as it’s known, had the advantage of a rudimentary airstrip connecting it to Panama City — which enabled residents to travel outside the region for medical treatment, attend univ... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Transportation , Infrastructure , Panama , Guna people

Simplified: The Guna community of Mulatupu in Panama, which for decades had a rudimentary airstrip connecting it to Panama City, lost its air service in the years...

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The gap presents many natural obstacles to development, including the wettest rainforest on Earth, as well as man-made ones, since Panama, Colombia and the United States have historically preferred th... 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , International Relations , History , Migration

Simplified: Historically, Panama, Colombia, and the United States have preferred to keep the Darién Gap undeveloped to deter the spread of disease and unchecked m...

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In 2007, a Panamanian-Colombian commission approached the Guna with a proposal to build high-voltage transmission lines connecting the two countries’ power grids. 1.000

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

Simplified: In 2007, a Panamanian-Colombian commission proposed to the Guna people a project to build high-voltage transmission lines connecting the power grids o...

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Which is why I was shocked to hear last year that the Guna were giving it real consideration. 1.000

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

Simplified: In 2025, the author Ben Ryder Howe heard that the Guna people were giving serious consideration to the Interconexión project.

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While the lines themselves would snake underwater off the Caribbean coast, the project would require building a giant penetration road with dozens of bridges to haul in construction equipment straight... 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Construction , Infrastructure , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: The proposed Interconexión project requires building a large road with dozens of bridges through the Gunayala territory to transport construction equi...

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Digandiggi, our home, was a village of 200 thatched-roof homes built on a coral reef, half a mile from the mainland jungle and the hulking silhouette of the Serranía de San Blas, a mountain range that... 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Panama

Simplified: The Guna village of Digandiggi consisted of 200 thatched-roof homes built on a coral reef, located half a mile from the Panamanian mainland and the Se...

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The Panama-Colombia border, which is also the border between North and South America — the only continents on Earth connected by land but not a single road. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Infrastructure , Colombia , Panama

Simplified: The border between Panama and Colombia is also the border between North and South America, and it is the only land connection between two continents o...

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Gunayala contains what may be the most pristine jungle in all of Latin America, and it includes hundreds of uninhabited islands and a mountainous mainland jungle that forms a section of the Darién Gap... 0.900

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Environment , Panama

Simplified: The Gunayala region of Panama contains what is described as possibly the most pristine jungle in Latin America.

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According to a U.S. government report in 1964, the Guna’s “chief characteristic has been and continues to be a persistent determination to preserve their cultural and racial structure against pressure... 1.000

👤 U.S. government report 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History , Panama , Indigenous People

Simplified: A 1964 U.S. government report stated that the Guna people's chief characteristic was a persistent determination to preserve their cultural and racial...

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The Guna lived on an archipelago of sandy, palm-covered islets along the Caribbean coast and had a reputation as prickly and disagreeable. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Panama , Indigenous People

Simplified: The Guna people live on an archipelago of sandy, palm-covered islets along the Caribbean coast of Panama.

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In 1970, my father, a shaggy 25-year-old from the Chicago suburbs finishing his Ph.D. in anthropology, traveled with my mother to the Gunayala region of northeast Panama to ask its inhabitants, the Gu... 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , People , Panama

Simplified: In 1970, the author's father, James Howe, a 25-year-old anthropology Ph.D. student, traveled with his wife to the Gunayala region of Panama to seek pe...

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That had been evident when, just a few years before my father arrived, an American businessman named W.D. Barton built a resort on one of Gunayala’s more than 350 uninhabited islands. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , History , Panama

Simplified: In the late 1960s, an American businessman named W.D. Barton built a resort on one of Gunayala’s more than 350 uninhabited islands.

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Both are pre-tax annual salaries spread across 365 days. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Journalism , Labor

Simplified: The teacher salary figures for Moscow and New York City used in a 2026 comparison represent pre-tax annual salaries spread across 365 days.

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The baskets contained 25 broadly comparable products, although the brands and quantities varied based on local availability. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Journalism

Simplified: For a 2026 price comparison between Moscow and New York City, the grocery baskets contained 25 broadly comparable products.

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The average teacher salary in Moscow was based on the 2024 average reported by Mosstat, the city’s statistics office, adjusted to reflect the 24 percent city raise and 7.6 percent federal raise enacte... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Russia , Journalism , Labor

Simplified: For a 2026 article, the average teacher salary in Moscow was calculated by taking the 2024 average from Mosstat and adjusting it for a 24% city raise...

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