The Barro Blanco Dam, constructed downriver from the Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca or territory, has caused flooding of communities in the Comarca.
This week, Brittany Wilmes talks environmental issues with NCR's Brian Roewe and Michele Morek, OSU, North American liaison for Global Sisters Report. Then, an interview with freelance writer Tracy L. Barnett about an indigenous tribe's fight to save their sacred lands from hydroelectric development in Panama.
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