Vicente, one of Olegario’s children, standing in his canoe in a river near the small town Boca del Uracillo, in Cocle province, Panama. — AFP
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.
The 49-year-old is one of hundreds of residents opposed to a new artificial lake that would feed the vital interoceanic waterway at the centre of diplomatic tensions with the United States.
