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 ...

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 ...

When Delfina Wazorna thinks back on the home she left behind, she remembers machine guns, armed men and death threats. It makes the Embera indigenous woman skeptical of the peace deal that Colombia’s ...

'I give something, you give something,' an Emberá indigenous craftswoman displaying her beautiful handiwork on a sidewalk in the Colombian capital told this reporter, saying she would pose for a photo ...

Climaco Dogirama wanted to honor his grandfather when he took part in the spear-throwing competition at Panama's Indigenous Ancestral Games, which seek to preserve age-old customs. "My grandfather ...

*This mass participation record attempt took place prior to the coronavirus pandemic. Corporate social responsibility company Impacta S.A has made history in South America after breaking the Guinness ...

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 ...

Colombia has reached an agreement in peace talks with the ELN rebel group to allow the Indigenous Embera community to return to its lands in the west of the country, President Gustavo Petro said. The ...