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According to two people briefed on the contribution, Timothy Mellon made a $20 million donation in August 2026 to help House Republicans.

As of September 2026, Timothy Mellon has made no publicly disclosed donations to support Senate Republicans for the fall midterm elections.

In the 2024 election cycle, Timothy Mellon, a grandson of industrialist Andrew Mellon, gave nearly $200 million to support Donald Trump and other Republicans.

In the 2024 election cycle, only Elon Musk donated more to Republicans than Timothy Mellon.

Mac Chapin stated that the Guna people must execute the Interconexión project on their own terms, because if they do not, someone else will.

Ben Ryder Howe is the author of the photo books 'VERDE', 'Darién', and 'White Line'.

Ben Ryder Howe is a contributor to The New York Times known for documenting migration, armed conflict, and the environment in Latin America.

The jungle lining the road that funnels tourism into Gunayala is largely untouched.

The Guna people's mapping project in the late 1970s and early 1980s resulted in the first instance in Latin America of an Indigenous group marking off its own nature reserve.

In the late 1970s, a group of younger Guna people pressured their leaders to fund an organized response to the Pan-American Highway offshoot.

Mac Chapin stated that historically, the Guna people would send delegations to Panama's capital to meet with the president, a practice he claims no other Indigenous group in Panama could do.

Using funds raised in the late 1970s, the Guna built an outpost on the Continental Divide staffed by border guards, topographers, and biologists.

In the late 1970s, Mac Chapin lobbied the international conservation community, which responded with millions of dollars in aid for the Guna people's efforts.

An offshoot of the Pan-American Highway into the Guna territory of Gunayala facilitated an influx of slash-and-burn farmers from western Panama.

Anthropologist Mac Chapin quit academia at age 40.

Anthropologist Mac Chapin began working with the Guna people in the late 1960s and later edited a compilation of Guna oral literature.

An agreement regarding the Interconexión Eléctrica Colombia-Panamá project is scheduled to be presented in the Guna territory of Gunayala in October 2026.

The government of Panama has promised to start construction on the Interconexión Eléctrica Colombia-Panamá project in the fall of 2026.

A Spring 2026 report titled "The State of Scholarship," commissioned by Vanderbilt and Washington universities, singled out the field of anthropology for a "widespread deterioration in scholarly standards."

The book “Argonauts of the Western Pacific,” published by Bronislaw Malinowski in 1922, sets the founding myth of ethnographic fieldwork where an anthropologist is left on a tropical beach to immerse himself in native life.