The setting is Parará Purú, a settlement of the Emberá people, located in Panama's interior in the Chagres National Park above the banks of the Río Chagres, which feeds the legendary Panama Canal.

From here, Panama's first indigenous people's radio station, Voces Originarias Panamá, is now broadcast across the country. Panama has almost half a million indigenous people, who make up 12% of ...