US EditionVillagers vow to fight new Panama Canal reservoir 'to the end'
- Hundreds of villagers, including 49-year-old Magdalena Martinez, protested a planned dam near the Indio River that threatens their homes in Panama in 2025.
- The Panama Canal Authority decided to build the dam and reservoir to protect the Panama Canal from severe droughts that reduced ship traffic drastically in 2023.
- The new reservoir, spanning approximately 4,600 hectares, will deliver water via a nine-kilometer tunnel to existing lakes that support the historic canal responsible for managing about six percent of worldwide maritime commerce.
- Environmental manager Karina Vergara described the initiative as the "water of the future," highlighting an investment of $1.6 billion that includes $400 million allocated for the compensation and resettlement of approximately 2,500 residents from multiple local communities.
- Villagers vow to fight the project, fearing the loss of their homes and livelihoods, with some saying, "We have to fight to the end" and "They'll have to remove us by force.
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Villagers vow to fight new Panama Canal reservoir 'to the end'
Magdalena Martinez has lived next to the Indio River all her life, but a planned dam aimed at shielding the Panama Canal from drought now threatens to swallow her home.
·Chariton, United States
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Panama Canal Authority Intends to Build a Reservoir, but Peasants Refuse to Abandon Land
Magdalena Martínez has always lived on a bank of the Indian River. But her house will be submerged by a new reservoir of the Panama Canal and, like her neighbors, she plans to resist until the end.The 49-year-old woman shares with her husband and five of her thirteen children a simple house of wood and zinc roof in Boca de Uracillo, a hamlet surrounded by green mountains. Her whole family was born in this village of houses with latrines and abou…
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