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

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ People , Panama

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

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My friend Dequía is like an ant when he gets in the forest,” said the cook, 29-year-old Eudelio Chiari. 1.000

👤 Eudelio Chiari 📋 News Article 🏷️ People , Panama

Simplified: Eudelio Chiari, the 29-year-old cook for the author's trek, described their guide Gerónimo Dequía as being 'like an ant when he gets in the forest'.

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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

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

Simplified: The guide, Gerónimo Dequía González, had an Emberá father; the Emberá are another of Panama's major Indigenous groups and were historical enemies of t...

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The men were open to development, however — as long as the Guna controlled it. 0.900

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

Simplified: The author's Guna companions on his trek were open to developing a sacred site, provided that the Guna people controlled the development.

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I had some idea of the route, having attempted it once back in 1998 with my father and brother. 1.000

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

Simplified: The author, Ben Ryder Howe, previously attempted to trek to Mordí in 1998 with his father and brother.

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Historically for the Guna, the deep forest is a place inhabited by dangerous spirits, and one that many are still happy to avoid. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Culture , Indigenous Peoples , Beliefs

Simplified: Historically, the Guna people believe the deep forest is inhabited by dangerous spirits, which leads many to avoid it.

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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 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , People , Panama

Simplified: The author's 1998 attempt to trek to Mordí with his family was abandoned after one day due to difficult terrain and an unclear path.

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

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Culture , Indigenous Peoples , Food and Drink

Simplified: In the Guna 'chicha' celebration, participants consume 'inna', a beverage made from sugarcane that is fermented in clay pots.

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In 1914, however, on the orders of Inabaginya, one of the great Guna chiefs, the place underwent a grueling exorcism — an entire month of chanting. 1.000

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

Simplified: In 1914, on the orders of Guna chief Inabaginya, the area of Puerto Escocés underwent a month-long exorcism ritual that involved chanting.

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

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ People , Panama

Simplified: During his trek in the Gunayala region, the author encountered Edgardo Linares, a high school teacher from Panama City, who was the sole resident of 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. 0.900

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

Simplified: The failure of the Scottish colony in Panama, which was financed by private investors, contributed to an economic crash that forced Scotland to join t...

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After a full day walking through the jungle and crossing rivers, the Guna guides — Arcelio González, Jerónimo Dequía and Aurelio Chiari — dry their wet socks and boots by a small fire on the riverbank... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Travel , Panama

Simplified: Guna guides Arcelio González, Jerónimo Dequía, and Aurelio Chiari dried their wet socks and boots by a fire after a full day of walking through the ju...

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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 found its first foreign outpost at Puerto Escocés in what is now Panama.

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The Scottish colonists faced the same troubles, and within two years, more than half of them would be dead, killed by fever and starvation. 1.000

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

Simplified: Within two years of the 1698 founding of the Scottish colony at Puerto Escocés, more than half of the colonists died from fever and starvation.

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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: English pirate Lionel Wafer, who was stranded with the Guna people for four months shortly before 1698, wrote in a published account that the area of...

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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 , Rituals , Indigenous Peoples

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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Celebrants consume inna, a sugarcane-based beverage fermented in clay pots. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Culture , Indigenous Peoples , Food and Drink

Simplified: During Guna chicha ceremonies, celebrants consume inna, a sugarcane-based beverage that is fermented in clay pots.

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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 bay in Panama known as Puerto Suggunyaa Inabiginya was formerly called Puerto Escocés, or Scottish Harbor.

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The Guna have been building a road through the jungle for 13 years. 1.000

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

Simplified: As of September 2026, the Guna people have been building a road through the jungle in Panama for 13 years.

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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. 1.000

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

Simplified: The author and his companion boarded a 27-year-old, six-seater Cessna plane to travel from Panama City to Gunayala.

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