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Panama: Isolated and Ignored Naso Fear Police Repression
Tensions are mounting in the indigenous Naso territory in Bocas del Toro province…where protestors have blocked access to the Bonyic Hydroelectric project…dam currently under construction…a project of the Colombian company [Empresas] Públicas de Medellin…[although] the then Naso King, Tito Santana, negotiated and reached an agreement with the company without the full consent of his subjects… compensation remains an on-going issue for some protestors who are still negotiating with the company for the sale of their lands...