Panamà-Darièn

Manenè: the last Indian Emberà village near rio Balsa before ?No man's land? near Colombia's border. Only 3 policemen protects the area. The Darién Gap is Panama's Bermuda Triangle, a mystery zone between North and South America where also the Pan-American Highway dead-ends. Panama has nearly no control over the border with neighboring Colombia, making the Gap a dangerous place, a refuge for outlaws, narcos (drug smugglers), Colombia's guerrillas of FARC and their ultra-rightist enemies, the paramilitaries. The violent contest between between these two groups constitutes the biggest threat to the small Indian communities living inside the Darien National Park. Also the increasing influx of Panamanian farmers has doubled the population, and any tree of the rainforest is in danger of being cut down or burned.

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Manenè: the last Indian Emberà village near rio Balsa before ?No man's land? near Colombia's border. Only 3 policemen protects the area. The Darién Gap is Panama's Bermuda Triangle, a mystery zone between North and South America where also the Pan-American Highway dead-ends. Panama has nearly no control over the border with neighboring Colombia, making the Gap a dangerous place, a refuge for outlaws, narcos (drug smugglers), Colombia's guerrillas of FARC and their ultra-rightist enemies, the paramilitaries. The violent contest between between these two groups constitutes the biggest threat to the small Indian communities living inside the Darien National Park. Also the increasing influx of Panamanian farmers has doubled the population, and any tree of the rainforest is in danger of being cut down or burned.