Panama, August 21, 2026. The loom thread and Ngäbe- Buglé tradition starred in the institutional tour of the Ministry of Culture in the region, where deputy minister Arianne Benedetti and regional director Jonathan Soto met local creators at Alto Caballero, Chichica and crafts from different communities gathered at INADEH's headquarters at Las Lajas.

In Chichica, the conversation began at the pace of the dances of the Nurakena group. In this space of dialogue, the institution outlined the strategy to decentralise cultural resources and detailed the functioning of the National Cultures Plan with a fund of five million dollars dedicated to infrastructure projects and community spaces that will be run from local bases itself.

) The local crafts have been familiarized with the process of formalizing the delivery of an attrition card by December, as well as with the incorporation into the SiCultura directory and their activities in the mobile application App MIC The work program covered the proposal to put in place an intertidal market that will cover the 70 cordments and 9 local districts, the approach to the intermingling of resellers, the organisation of local markets and the deployment of technical training in the production of projects to have access to contipable funds that will lead to the direct commercialization of their parts.

The Ministry of Culture is close to opening its regional headquarters at Ngäbe- Buglé, which will manage all the work of this community.