Claims tagged with "Panama"

View all claims tagged with "Panama"

Clear Filter

Subject Tag

Extracted Claims (105)

Soon they had funding to build an outpost built atop the Continental Divide, housing a team of border guards, topographers and biologists. 1.000

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

Simplified: Using funds raised in the late 1970s, the Guna built an outpost on the Continental Divide staffed by border guards, topographers, and biologists.

0 sources

2 weeks ago
A group of younger Guna agreed, and in the late 1970s they started pressuring their leaders to fund an organized response. 1.000

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

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

0 sources

2 weeks ago
According to Chapin, who would go on to a long career as an Indigenous land rights advocate, the Guna were different from other groups. Whenever they had an issue with wagas, “they would send delegati... 1.000

👤 Mac Chapin 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: Mac Chapin stated that historically, the Guna people would send delegations to Panama's capital to meet with the president, a practice he claims no ot...

0 sources

2 weeks ago
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.

0 sources

2 weeks ago
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...

0 sources

2 weeks ago
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.

0 sources

2 weeks ago
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...

0 sources

2 weeks ago
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...

0 sources

2 weeks ago
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...

0 sources

2 weeks ago
The contract gives Mordí residents few rights, including an inability to renegotiate prices for trees they fell. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Legal , Panama , Indigenous Rights

Simplified: The 25-year contract between the Mordí community and Guo Jian Zhang Zeng's company gives residents few rights, including an inability to renegotiate p...

0 sources

2 weeks ago
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.

0 sources

2 weeks ago
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...

0 sources

2 weeks ago
Zeng’s logging concessions have been repeatedly cited for overcutting. 0.950

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

Simplified: Logging concessions in Panama belonging to Guo Jian Zhang Zeng (El Chino) have been repeatedly cited for overcutting.

0 sources

2 weeks ago
Mordí residents say he tricked the community into a contrato leonino — a one-sided 25-year contract. 1.000

👤 Mordí residents 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Legal , Panama , Indigenous Rights

Simplified: Residents of the Mordí community in Panama say that timber baron Guo Jian Zhang Zeng (El Chino) tricked them into a one-sided, 25-year contract.

0 sources

2 weeks ago
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...

0 sources

2 weeks ago
This arrangement is encouraged by Panamanian law, which was rewritten in 1994 to give Indians control over their own land. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Panama , Indigenous Rights

Simplified: Panamanian law was rewritten in 1994 to give Indigenous people control over their own land, an arrangement that encourages logging companies to work w...

0 sources

2 weeks ago
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.

0 sources

2 weeks ago
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.

0 sources

2 weeks ago
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.

0 sources

2 weeks ago
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...

0 sources

2 weeks ago