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This article is part of a wider investigation regarding the relation between the Panamanian State and the Ngäbe group from the mid twentieth century to the present. In some way, it seeks to study the country’s management of its natural resources, focusing in the ones existing in the Ngäbe-Buglé Region, founded in 1997. Even though the banana’s concessions given to the US company in Panama were not in today’s Ngäbe territory, it was there the first meeting place between this group and their “others” that entail a transformation process for the group and the banana production, and prepared them for the following demand and defense of their own territory from the central group’s interests.