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His company, International Woodwork Corporation (I.W.C.), which exports wood paneling to China, works only with Indigenous communities, which control the last stands of valuable timber in Panama. 1.000

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

Simplified: Guo Jian Zhang Zeng's company, International Woodwork Corporation (I.W.C.), exports wood paneling to China and works exclusively with Indigenous commu...

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Benjamin Goodman, a U.S.-based legal professional who grew up in Mordí with his Protestant missionary parents and today advises the village on legal issues. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , People , Panama

Simplified: Benjamin Goodman is a U.S.-based legal professional who grew up in the Panamanian village of Mordí with his Protestant missionary parents and now advi...

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I.W.C. and Zeng did not respond to multiple requests for comment. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Journalism

Simplified: International Woodwork Corporation (I.W.C.) and its owner Guo Jian Zhang Zeng did not respond to multiple requests for comment for the September 2026...

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The greatest concentration of such trees outside the Amazon exists in Gunayala and Darién, she believes. 1.000

👤 Catherine Potvin 📋 News Article 🏷️ Science , Environment , Panama

Simplified: Biology professor Catherine Potvin believes the greatest concentration of very old trees outside the Amazon exists in the Gunayala and Darién regions...

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Mordí is only accessible by water or on foot, via an unmapped ghost path. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: The Guna community of Mordí is only accessible by water or on foot via an unmapped path.

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Unlike Guna villages along the coast, Mordí sold its precious supply of mahogany, cedar and almendro. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , History , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: The Guna community of Mordí, unlike coastal Guna villages, sold its supply of mahogany, cedar, and almendro wood.

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I once interviewed a Panamanian engineer who helped design the route of Pan-American Highway, the segment built in the 1970s at a time when there were no roads in eastern Panama, just jungle. 1.000

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

Simplified: A segment of the Pan-American Highway was built in the 1970s in eastern Panama, an area that previously had no roads.

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El Chino, whose name is Guo Jian Zhang Zeng, began working with Mordí in 2006. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , People , Panama

Simplified: A timber baron known as El Chino, whose name is Guo Jian Zhang Zeng, began working with the Indigenous community of Mordí in Panama in 2006.

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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. 1.000

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

Simplified: Indra Candanedo, director of Alianza por Matusagaratí, stated that bridges are being built throughout eastern Panama, with some funded by local govern...

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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 deforested up to the boundaries of 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 , Biology , Academia

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

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Her models tell her they are between 500 and 1,400 years old, which would match the oldest trees in the region. 1.000

👤 Catherine Potvin 📋 News Article 🏷️ Science , Environment , Biology , Panama

Simplified: Models used by biology professor Catherine Potvin indicate that some trees in eastern Panama are between 500 and 1,400 years old.

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For decades, the separation of North and South America was maintained through the collective will of Panama, Colombia and, above all, the United States, which underwrote border-control programs and es... 1.000

👤 Indra Candanedo 📋 News Article 🏷️ International Relations , History , United States , Colombia , Panama

Simplified: Indra Candanedo, director of Alianza por Matusagaratí, stated that for decades, the separation of North and South America at the Darién Gap was mainta...

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“Use your heels to slow yourself,” Chiari advised me. 1.000

👤 Eudelio Chiari 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Outdoors

Simplified: To slow a descent on slippery hills, Guna guide Eudelio Chiari advised the author to use his heels.

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Though for the previous 36 hours it had rained as hard as it ever does in Panama. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Weather , Panama

Simplified: During the author's trek in the Gunayala jungle, there was a 36-hour period of very heavy rain.

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“When was the last time you were here?” I asked. “Never,” he replied. 1.000

👤 Eudelio Chiari 📋 News Article 🏷️ People , Panama

Simplified: Eudelio Chiari, one of the Guna guides on the trek to Mordí, stated that he had never been on that part of the trail before.

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At one point when Arcelio González, our quiet guide in his 40s, saw me coming and put up his hand to halt, I continued sliding and ended up stepping in what he wanted to show me: a shiny, greenish-bro... 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Wildlife , Panama

Simplified: During the trek to Mordí, the author accidentally stepped in a jaguar dropping that guide Arcelio González, who is in his 40s, was attempting to show...

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Today, in addition to being firmly controlled by Indigenous peoples, the area remains almost completely undeveloped — an ecological time capsule. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Environment , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: The Darién Gap area is controlled by Indigenous peoples and remains almost completely undeveloped.

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it was likely one of the routes by which the Golden People, as the Guna call themselves, made their flight from danger during the colonial era, when they were spread out across eastern Panama and Colo... 0.900

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

Simplified: A route through the Darién Gap was likely used by the Guna people to flee danger during the colonial era, when they were spread across eastern Panama...

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

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

Simplified: As of the author's 2026 trek, Guna men had been cutting a road to Mordí by hand for 13 years.

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