{"id":141,"date":"2017-04-26T16:08:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T16:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.modeteab.org\/?p=141"},"modified":"2025-04-01T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T10:32:20","slug":"santa-fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.modeteab.org\/es\/santa-fe\/","title":{"rendered":"Kankint\u00fa y Norte de Santa Fe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Kankint\u00fa and Norte de Santa Fe Confront Challenges from Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Our way of life, in general terms, is about sustainable agriculture, Mother Earth, and the diversity of traditional crops that give life to all the dwellers. That’s a common thread throughout the indigenous area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our people are of struggle, and the indigenous struggle of the original peoples is protected by the sacred power, the power of God, creator and lord of all nature. We are left with an internal challenge to unify our ideas for the social good and to resist the manipulations of the government, to resist for the life of Indigenous people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Saturnino<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A significant government infrastructure initiative\u2014the Fourth Transmission Line\u2014poses a threat to our Ng\u00e4be and Bugl\u00e9 communities in the Kankint\u00fa district of the Comarca Ng\u00e4be-Bugl\u00e9 and in Norte de Santa Fe, Veraguas province. This proposed project, partially funded by the World Bank\u2019s International Finance Corporation (IFC), aims to construct a 300-kilometre electrical line along Panama\u2019s Atlantic Coast. The transmission line will cross our ancestral territories and some of the last remaining untouched rainforests in Panama. We are particularly concerned about the associated infrastructure, including mines, dams, and roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Map to show Panama’s power infrastructure, including the proposed Line IV or “Cuarta Linea”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Our Ng\u00e4be and Bugl\u00e9 communities have inhabited traditional territories in western Panama for thousands of years. However, we have been excluded from processes of free, prior, and informed consent regarding projects that impact our territory. Our government has failed to recognize our collective land rights, which are protected under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In support of the Territorial Organization of Ng\u00e4be, Bugl\u00e9, and Campesinos of the Northern Region of Santa Fe, MODETEAB brought the communities\u2019 concerns to the IFC\u2019s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO). Their investigation into our complaints revealed that the IFC had not adhered to its own sustainability policy<\/a>, yet the project continues to move forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We have been against the Fourth Line and all the projects that come from outside. We have been against all the projects because they only cause us to suffer dispossession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government has sometimes said that poverty is going to end [with these projects]. They are going to kill all of us when poverty ends. They are taking away our land, taking away our culture, taking away our way of life, and our way of eating; we will be dead because of all the junk that comes from outside. The food for the children is no longer the same. That is why I am worried that, as a mother and a woman, our family will no longer have a healthy diet like the one we have now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Rosa<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Norte de Santa Fe, Veraguas province<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Norte de Santa Fe is part of the district of Santa Fe in Veraguas province. The region encompasses cold, high mountains in Panama’s Central Range and humid lowlands on its Caribbean coastline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Map to show boundaries and location of Santa Fe District in Veraguas Province.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The mountains of Norte de Santa Fe are rugged and thickly forested. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Ng\u00e4be community of Playita in Norte de Santa Fe. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Campesino allies from Norte de Santa Fe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kankint\u00fa, Ng\u00e4be-Bugl\u00e9 Comarca<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kankint\u00fa refers to both a town and a district of the Comarca Ng\u00e4be-Bugl\u00e9. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A mural in Colegio San Agust\u00edn de Kankint\u00fa<\/em> (2016) showing administrative divisions of the Comarca Ng\u00e4be-Bugl\u00e9, including Kankint\u00fa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Google Earth screenshot to show Kankint\u00fa on the Cricamola River in the Comarca Ng\u00e4be-Bugl\u00e9. The view has been rotated with the Caribbean coast in the top left corner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Cricamola River, as seen from Kankint\u00fa, the Ng\u00e4be-Bugl\u00e9 Comarca. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Cacique Cesar Salazar on a bridge over the Cricamola River, Kankint\u00fa, the Ng\u00e4be-Bugl\u00e9 Comarca. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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MODETEAB meeting with friends and allies in Kankint\u00fa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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