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Khan Sheikhun, al-Maarra and Saraqib are three cities in a very strategic location,” he said, zooming in to show their location on the M5. 1.000

👤 Mohammed Khishan 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Infrastructure , Syria

Simplified: The Syrian cities of Khan Sheikhun, al-Maarra (Maarrat al-Numan), and Saraqib are located on the M5 highway.

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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