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 astronauts of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo formed a surprising connection between Panama’s Indigenous Emberá people who taught them jungle survival.

Climaco Dogirama wanted to honor his grandfather when he took part in the spear-throwing competition at Indigenous Ancestral Games. Climaco Dogirama, a member of the Panamanian Embera ethnic group, ...

Charlie Collins is the chef-owner of Hotel Panamonte and its restaurant, T'Ach, a word meaning "food" and "plantains" in the Emberá-Wounaan language. A culinary anthropologist, Collins has authored ...

“God Is a Woman,” a doc by Swiss-Panamanian filmmaker Andrés Peyrot about Pierre Dominique Gaisseau’s 1975 journey to Panama to make a film on the island-dwelling Kuna people — whose women play a ...

Latin America is not a region where FGM is heavily practiced. In general, countries in the region do not have special laws on FGM but do have general laws on bodily harm and mutilation. FGM is however ...