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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

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Conservation , Panama , Guna People

Simplified: Following fundraising efforts in the late 1970s, an outpost was built atop the Continental Divide in Panama, housing a team of Guna border guards, top...

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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

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Activism , Panama , Guna People

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

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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

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

Simplified: Three days after the author's arrival, a storm flooded the Río Chucunaque and washed away a log bridge that had been built for the Mordí community.

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When Chapin turned to advocacy, it was already facilitating an influx of colonos — slash-and-burn farmers from western Panama. 1.000

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

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

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Panama, meanwhile, which has long promised to start construction in the fall, is continuing to push forward aggressively. 0.900

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

Simplified: The government of Panama has long promised to start construction on the Interconexión project in the fall of 2026 and is continuing to push the projec...

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Zeng’s logging concessions have been repeatedly cited for overcutting. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Environment , Regulation , Panama

Simplified: Logging concessions belonging to Guo Jian Zhang Zeng have been repeatedly cited for overcutting.

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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: The segment of the Pan-American Highway in eastern Panama was constructed in the 1970s.

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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 🏷️ Economy , History , Panama

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

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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

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

Simplified: Panamanian law was rewritten in 1994 to give Indigenous people control over their own land.

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

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

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

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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

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Biography , 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 had some idea of the route, having attempted it once back in 1998 with my father and brother. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ History , Biography , Panama

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

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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

👤 The author 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ History , People , Biography , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: The guide Jerónimo Dequía has a mixed background with an Emberá father; the Emberá are another major Indigenous group in Panama and were enemies of th...

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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 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ History , Biography , Panama

Simplified: During their 1998 trek attempt in Panama, the author, his father, and his brother gave up after the first day due to challenging terrain and an unclea...

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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 pushed back to fragile protected zones and mountains like the Continental Divide.

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the cook, 29-year-old Eudelio Chiari. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ People , Biography , Panama

Simplified: The cook for the author's trek was Eudelio Chiari, who was 29 years old.

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

👤 The author 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ People , Biography , Panama

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

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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. 0.950

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

Simplified: Indra Candanedo, director of the conservation group Alianza por Matusagaratí, stated that bridges are being built throughout eastern Panama, with some...

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

👤 The author 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ Construction , Infrastructure , Panama

Simplified: As of the article's publication in 2026, a road to Mordí in Panama's Gunayala region had been under construction by hand for 13 years.

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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: Lionel Wafer, an English pirate who was stranded with the Guna people in Panama for four months shortly before the Scottish Darien scheme, wrote in a...

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