By Lawrence Reichard

Getting to the Indigenous hamlet of Kia in the Panamanian province of Chiriqui is no walk in the park.  First you gotta get to the hot, steamy town of Tole, about six hours west by bus from Panama City.  That’s the easy part. Then you ride for the better part of a half-hour in the bed of - or very precariously hanging off the back of - a pickup truck as it crashes over a “road” that would kill my Civic back home dead in a New York minute.  

Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) reports and condemns the attempted murder of María Santos Domínguez, Coordinator of the Indigenous Advisory Organization of Río Blanco and o