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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 🏷️ Media , People , Panama

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

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In a statement, a spokesman with Panama’s energy ministry said, “The state sees in this project the opportunity to settle a historic debt with communities that have lived disconnected from development... 1.000

👤 Panama’s energy ministry spokesman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Panama

Simplified: A spokesman for Panama’s energy ministry stated that the government sees the Guna road project as an opportunity to settle a historic debt with discon...

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Work crews began building a road from Mulatupu to Mordí with machetes — chain saws are hard to come by in Gunayala — in 2013. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Construction , Infrastructure , Panama , Guna

Simplified: In 2013, Guna work crews began building a road from Mulatupu to Mordí using machetes.

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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 1.000

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

Simplified: Guna leaders stated they have requested support from Panama's government for a modern two-lane highway they would design, with an estimated cost of ov...

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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 1.000

👤 Rodrigo Rodríguez 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Finance , Panama

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

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Most of the men in the room were from Sasardi Muladub (population roughly 2,000), a farming and fishing community near the Colombian border. 1.000

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

Simplified: Sasardi Muladub, a Guna farming and fishing community near the Colombian border, has a population of roughly 2,000.

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While for decades their communities had played host to occasional cruise ships, whose economic impact never spread beyond a few islands, things changed in the 1970s when an offshoot of the Pan-America... 1.000

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

Simplified: In the 1970s, an offshoot of the Pan-American Highway first penetrated the edge of the Guna people's reserve in Panama, connecting it with Panama City...

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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... 0.950

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

Simplified: The Guna community of Mulatupu, which for decades had an airstrip connecting it to Panama City, lost its air service in the years leading up to 2026,...

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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

Simplified: A 19-mile dirt road offshoot of the Pan-American Highway into the Guna reserve in Panama was paved in 2011.

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Like many Guna, he had attended college, including a semester at Tulane. He was married to a non-Guna and lived in Panama City. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography

Simplified: Simón Herrera, a Guna commission member, attended college, including a semester at Tulane, is married to a non-Guna person, and lives in Panama City.

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He invited the other men to introduce themselves while a technician with a camera started filming — within hours, pictures of the gathering would be all over tribal social media. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Media

Simplified: A technician filmed a February 2026 meeting between the author and a Guna commission, and pictures of it were posted on tribal social media.

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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 🏷️ History , Panama , Guna

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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One of the commission members, a high school teacher and historian named Simón Herrera, shook my hand. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography

Simplified: Simón Herrera, a member of a Guna commission on the Interconexión project, is a high school teacher and historian.

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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

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

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The road between the communities that the Guna have started hacking with machetes would take another 20-30 years to finish on their own. 0.900

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Infrastructure , Indigenous Communities

Simplified: It is estimated that the road the Guna people are building with machetes between the communities of Mordí and Mulatupu would take 20 to 30 years to co...

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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 , Indigenous Governance

Simplified: The Gunayala General Congress is the supreme political authority of the Guna people and appoints commissions.

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The Guna can block the Interconexión — and they have, multiple times, going back more than a decade. 1.000

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

Simplified: For more than a decade prior to 2026, the Guna people have blocked the Interconexión project multiple times.

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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 🏷️ Politics , Infrastructure , Energy

Simplified: The 2007 proposal for the Interconexión project included building a large road with dozens of bridges through the Gunayala territory to transport cons...

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In fact, members of the community were already building a road themselves — hacking their way through the jungle with machetes, creating a corridor that they hoped the Interconexión would facilitate. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Infrastructure , Indigenous Communities

Simplified: In 2025, members of the Guna community were building a road through the jungle with machetes.

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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

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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