Mass Migration Through Panama’s Darien Gap Destroying an Indigenous Tribe — and Human Rights Organizations Don’t Care

WASHINGTON, DC — The leader of the <a href="https://www.nativeplanet.org/indigenous/embera/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Embera Tribe</a> left his jungle homeland in <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/Congressman-and-Journalists-Report-Historic-Surge-ExtraContinental-Migrants-Now-Pouring" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Panama’s Darien Gap</a> and came to the nation’s capital last week with an SOS message to the American people: a record-setting mass migration through his reservation, spurred by President Joe Biden as soon as he entered office this year, is destroying the tribe’s traditional ways of life at a pace beyond living memory and corrupting its people to an entirely unacknowledged extent. Mayor Francisco Agapi, who heads 29 villages in and around the isolated Embera tribal capital of Bajo Chaquito, spoke publicly for the first time of his tribe’s plight on December 7 while serving on <a href="https://cis.org/Video/Panel-Panamas-Darien-Gap" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a panel about the Darien Gap migrant passage</a> hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies, which sponsored his travel from Panama. <a href="https://medium.com/the-right-side-of-history-of-national-security/mass-migration-through-panamas-darien-gap-destroying-an-indigenous-tribe-and-human-rights-5491369edbf3">Read More</a>