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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 🏷️ Economics , History , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

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

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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 deforested up to the boundaries of fragile protected zones and mountains like the Continental Divide.

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For decades, the separation of North and South America was maintained through the collective will of Panama, Colombia and, above all, the United States, which underwrote border-control programs and es... 1.000

👤 Indra Candanedo 📋 News Article 🏷️ International Relations , History , United States , Colombia , Panama

Simplified: Indra Candanedo, director of Alianza por Matusagaratí, stated that for decades, the separation of North and South America at the Darién Gap was mainta...

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Her models tell her they are between 500 and 1,400 years old, which would match the oldest trees in the region. 1.000

👤 Catherine Potvin 📋 News Article 🏷️ Science , Environment , Biology , Panama

Simplified: Models used by biology professor Catherine Potvin indicate that some trees in eastern Panama are between 500 and 1,400 years old.

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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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At one point when Arcelio González, our quiet guide in his 40s, saw me coming and put up his hand to halt, I continued sliding and ended up stepping in what he wanted to show me: a shiny, greenish-bro... 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Wildlife , Panama

Simplified: During the trek to Mordí, the author accidentally stepped in a jaguar dropping that guide Arcelio González, who is in his 40s, was attempting to show...

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it was likely one of the routes by which the Golden People, as the Guna call themselves, made their flight from danger during the colonial era, when they were spread out across eastern Panama and Colo... 0.900

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

Simplified: A route through the Darién Gap was likely used by the Guna people to flee danger during the colonial era, when they were spread across eastern Panama...

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“When was the last time you were here?” I asked. “Never,” he replied. 1.000

👤 Eudelio Chiari 📋 News Article 🏷️ People , Panama

Simplified: Eudelio Chiari, one of the Guna guides on the trek to Mordí, stated that he had never been on that part of the trail before.

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Though for the previous 36 hours it had rained as hard as it ever does in Panama. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Weather , Panama

Simplified: During the author's trek in the Gunayala jungle, there was a 36-hour period of very heavy rain.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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’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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