This article explores the relationship between the Emberá–Wounaan and Akha Indigenous people and organized crime groups vying for control over natural resources in the Darién Gap of East Panama and West Colombia and the Golden Triangle (the area where the borders of Laos, Myanmar (Burma), and Thailand meet), respectively. From a southern green criminological perspective, we consider how organized crime groups trading in natural resources value Indigenous knowledge. We also examine the continued victimization of Indigenous people in relation to environmental harm and the tension between Indigenous peoples’ ecocentric values and the economic incentives presented to them for exploiting nature. By looking at the history of the coloniality and the socioeconomic context of these Indigenous communities, this article generates a discussion about the social framing of the Indigenous people as both victims and offenders in the illegal trade in natural resources, particularly considering the types of relationships established with dominant criminal groups present in their ancestral lands.

本文探讨了Emberá-Wounaan和Akha之间的关系原住民和有组织的犯罪集团分别在东巴拿马和西哥伦比亚的达连峡以及金三角（老挝、缅甸（缅甸）和泰国的边界交界处）争夺自然资源的控制权。从南方绿色犯罪学的角度来看，我们考虑了有组织的犯罪集团交易自然资源如何重视土著知识。我们还研究了土著人民在环境危害方面的持续受害情况，以及土著人民以生态为中心的价值观与为开发自然而向他们提供的经济激励之间的紧张关系。通过观察这些土著社区的殖民历史和社会经济背景，