Digna Benite
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Panamanian woman featured discussing river life
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentConsider This from NPRIn Panama economic needs threaten to erase a way of life · 2:50 · Feb 2025
…I feel as if they would kill us because we wouldn't be surrounded by nature anymore. For example, this coffee plant that we're standing by, I grab the bean, I take it, I toast it, and then that's the coffee that I have in the mornings.…
Ari ShapiroConsider This from NPR · In Panama economic needs threaten to erase a way of life · 2:23 · Feb 2025
…It's Consider This from NPR. In a wide grassy field in rural Panama, Digna Benite looks out at the spot where the Panama Canal Authority plans to build a new dam. We stand in the shade of a wild coffee tree, the fragrance like honeysuckle, wafting off branches full of white blossoms. Senora Digna, when you see this place and you think about what might happe…
Ari ShapiroConsider This from NPR · In Panama economic needs threaten to erase a way of life · 1:44 · Feb 2025
…But a couple years ago, a drought got so bad that the canal had to reduce traffic by more than a third, which had a huge impact on global shipping. Consider this. The Panama Canal needs more water, and authorities have decided to get it by building a dam in a spot that would displace Digna, Olegario, and more than 2,000 other people. From NPR, I'm Ari Shapi…
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