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 ...

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 ...

Chief Zarco’s daughter Natalia Sarco works as an ecologist and bird-watching guide in Panama City’s Metropolitan National Park. The former Canal Zone’s 573-acre park was a site of the Albrook survival ...

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 ...

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 ...