Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the Río Chagres motorized wooden boats are the only means of transport. Make this trip to Panama's Emberá people, and you ...

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 ...

Members of the Embera-Wounnaan tribe taking migrants on a boat through the Darien Gap in Panama. Todd Bensman METETI, Panama — Not far from this small town, the 19,000-mile-long Pan-American Highway ...

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 ...

Since the 2007 death of a newborn Embera girl from an infection following FGM, Colombian authorities and the UNFPA have been working with Embera communities in the western Risaralda province to ...

Wounaan and Embera indigenous communities occupying four territories in eastern Panama are taking their nearly five-year land-titling battle with the government to the Inter-American Commission on ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Filmed by an Emberá with a cell phone in the town of Catrú, the video shows panicked residents of the town hiding and rushing onto packed canoes at ...