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The article is part of a research project that addresses the relationship between the Panamanian State and the Ngäbe group in Panama from the second half of the 20th century to the present. It will study the Mama-Tatda religious movement that occurred in the early 1960s, following a banana strike that, unlike previous ones, united the three ethnic groups working in it. Although the strike achieved concessions from the United Fruit Company, the company did not respect them, dismissing most of the Ngäbe group who worked there, forcing them to return to their lands. It was then that Mama-chi, an Ngäbe woman with knowledge of the non-indigenous world, led a religious movement with political and social nuances. This movement can be considered the beginning of the struggle for the establishment of the Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca in 1997, as it proposed the formation of a new world with a different worldview from the two worlds known until then, syncretizing elements of the Ngäbe and Western cultures.
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