RÍO BAUDÓ, Colombia, April 10 (UNHCR) - More than 2,000 indigenous Embera people have fled their collective territory in the jungles of north-west Colombia since the arrival there a month ago of a ...
SANTUARIO, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Maria Claris Sintua was just 13, she was put in wooden stocks for three days as a punishment from leaders of her tribe in the Colombian jungle.
The Biden administration’s border policies have helped contribute to the destruction of indigenous tribes in Central and South America, according to one expert. Panama’s indigenous Embera-Wounnaan ...
The displaced Embera Katio community came to Cali in 2013 following an armed conflict that was raging in Risaralda province. REUTERS /Jaime Saldarriaga As climate 'tipping points' near, scientists ...
In the wake of the recent war between the FARC, the military and para-military forces, the current administration is attempting to distance Colombia from its recent war-torn history. At the same time, ...
On the Río Chagres motorized wooden boats are the only means of transport. Make this trip to Panama's Emberá people, and you witness not just some folkloristic performance, but the very culture by ...
The roadless Darién Gap was for centuries an almost impenetrable and pristine strip of land connecting what is now Panama and Colombia, inhabited by the indigenous Emberá and Wounaan people. Now, tens ...