The Naso or Teribe people are an indigenous people of Panama and Costa Rica. They primarily live in the Bocas del Toro. In the early 1970s, the Ganadera Bocas S.A. construction company was given a property title stating legal ownership on land originally belonging to the Naso people. Since March 2009, the company has been displacing Naso inhabitants by force and demolishing their villages. The Naso people held protest rallies against the destruction of their land and the Panamanian Government lack of legal recognition of their ancestral territories. |