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“The Guna have to do it,” Chapin said. “If they don’t, somebody else will.” 1.000

👤 Mac Chapin 📋 News Article 🏷️ Infrastructure , Activism , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: Mac Chapin stated that the Guna people must execute the Interconexión project on their own terms, because if they do not, someone else will.

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At the same time, Chapin lobbied the international conservation community, which responded with millions of dollars in aid. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Conservation , Activism , Fundraising

Simplified: In the late 1970s, Mac Chapin lobbied the international conservation community, which responded with millions of dollars in aid for the Guna people's...

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Soon they had funding to build an outpost built atop the Continental Divide, housing a team of border guards, topographers and biologists. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Conservation , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: Using funds raised in the late 1970s, the Guna built an outpost on the Continental Divide staffed by border guards, topographers, and biologists.

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According to Chapin, who would go on to a long career as an Indigenous land rights advocate, the Guna were different from other groups. Whenever they had an issue with wagas, “they would send delegati... 1.000

👤 Mac Chapin 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: Mac Chapin stated that historically, the Guna people would send delegations to Panama's capital to meet with the president, a practice he claims no ot...

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A group of younger Guna agreed, and in the late 1970s they started pressuring their leaders to fund an organized response. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Activism , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: In the late 1970s, a group of younger Guna people pressured their leaders to fund an organized response to the Pan-American Highway offshoot.

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When Chapin turned to advocacy, it was already facilitating an influx of colonos — slash-and-burn farmers from western Panama. 0.950

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , History , Infrastructure , Panama

Simplified: An offshoot of the Pan-American Highway into the Guna territory of Gunayala facilitated an influx of slash-and-burn farmers from western Panama.

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Chapin, who also started working with the Guna in the late 1960s, edited a compilation of Guna oral literature that is still widely read, especially by the Guna. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography , Indigenous Peoples , Anthropology

Simplified: Anthropologist Mac Chapin began working with the Guna people in the late 1960s and later edited a compilation of Guna oral literature.

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At age 40, he quit the academy. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography , Anthropology

Simplified: Anthropologist Mac Chapin quit academia at age 40.

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Last month, the leadership of Wargandí, the inland Guna reserve that includes Mordí, took a significant step toward approval of the project — by voting to enter a critical consultation and consent pha... 1.000

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

Simplified: In August 2026, the leadership of the Wargandí Guna reserve voted to enter a consultation and consent phase with the Panamanian government regarding t...

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In the founding myth of ethnographic fieldwork, set by Bronislaw Malinowski in 1922 in “Argonauts of the Western Pacific,” the anthropologist arrives on a tropical beach as the boat that brought him s... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Academia , Anthropology

Simplified: The book “Argonauts of the Western Pacific,” published by Bronislaw Malinowski in 1922, sets the founding myth of ethnographic fieldwork where an anth...

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A similar agreement will be presented in Gunayala in October. 0.900

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

Simplified: An agreement regarding the Interconexión Eléctrica Colombia-Panamá project is scheduled to be presented in the Guna territory of Gunayala in October 2...

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Panama, meanwhile, which has long promised to start construction in the fall, is continuing to push forward aggressively. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Infrastructure , Panama

Simplified: The government of Panama has promised to start construction on the Interconexión Eléctrica Colombia-Panamá project in the fall of 2026.

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He was referring to a controversial report on the humanities last spring called “The State of Scholarship,” commissioned by Vanderbilt and Washington universities, which singled out anthropology for “... 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Higher Education , Academia , Anthropology

Simplified: A Spring 2026 report titled "The State of Scholarship," commissioned by Vanderbilt and Washington universities, singled out the field of anthropology...

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He had built the community a log bridge over the Río Chucunaque, which allowed traffic almost all the way to the village. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Infrastructure , Panama

Simplified: Timber baron Guo Jian Zhang Zeng (El Chino) built the Mordí community a log bridge over the Río Chucunaque in Panama.

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The contract gives Mordí residents few rights, including an inability to renegotiate prices for trees they fell. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Legal , Panama , Indigenous Rights

Simplified: The 25-year contract between the Mordí community and Guo Jian Zhang Zeng's company gives residents few rights, including an inability to renegotiate p...

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Three days later, we would learn, a powerful storm swept through, flooding the river and washing the bridge downstream. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , Infrastructure , Weather , Panama

Simplified: Three days after the author's visit in 2026, a powerful storm flooded the Río Chucunaque in Panama and washed away a log bridge that had been built fo...

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The people of Mordí have serious reservations about a road being built so close to their community, he said, partly because of the impact the noise could have on animals and sacred sites. 1.000

👤 Mauselio Kastaña 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , Infrastructure , Panama , Indigenous Rights

Simplified: According to Mordí resident Mauselio Kastaña, the people of Mordí have serious reservations about the proposed Interconexión road project due to its p...

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Zeng’s logging concessions have been repeatedly cited for overcutting. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Environment , Regulation , Panama

Simplified: Logging concessions in Panama belonging to Guo Jian Zhang Zeng (El Chino) have been repeatedly cited for overcutting.

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Mordí residents say he tricked the community into a contrato leonino — a one-sided 25-year contract. 1.000

👤 Mordí residents 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Legal , Panama , Indigenous Rights

Simplified: Residents of the Mordí community in Panama say that timber baron Guo Jian Zhang Zeng (El Chino) tricked them into a one-sided, 25-year contract.

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This arrangement is encouraged by Panamanian law, which was rewritten in 1994 to give Indians control over their own land. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Panama , Indigenous Rights

Simplified: Panamanian law was rewritten in 1994 to give Indigenous people control over their own land, an arrangement that encourages logging companies to work w...

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