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Protesters in Panama leave part of key highway

Panama's government and indigenous leaders reached a deal Sunday to clear demonstrators from part of the Panamerican Highway in exchange for lower fuel prices,...

President of Panama announces blood cancer diagnosis

The President of Panama Laurentino Cortizo said on Monday that he has blood cancer, although the 69-year-old said he feels well and is in...

10 kids rescued in sex ring raid

Panamanian authorities announced Thursday that as part of an operation to disrupt a sex trafficking ring, 10 children were rescued and three people in...

Pok ta Pok: Mayan ball game is serious business

With little regard for joints or bones, bare-chested men hurl their bodies at a hard floor and contort their limbs to strike a heavy...

Panama defends hiring Cuban doctors to fight pandemic

Panama's health minister on Monday defended the deployment of more than 200 Cuban doctors to help the Central American country battle the coronavirus, despite...

Panama’s border closure traps immigrants

The closing of Panama’s border due to COVID has stranded a  thousand migrants—most from Haiti and Cuba—in Colombia, as they had planned to sneak across...

Indonesia seizes Iranian and Panamanian tankers

Indonesia has seized an Iranian tanker and Panamanian vessel suspected of illegally transferring oil in the Southeast Asian nation's waters, authorities said Monday. The crude...

Iota, weakened but deadly, rips through Central America

Storm Iota has killed at least nine people as it smashed homes, uprooted trees and swamped roads during its destructive advance across Central America,...

‘Superfungus’ vs. golden frogs

Cocooned from the outside world, some 200 critically endangered golden frogs are living a sheltered existence in Panama, protected from a devastating fungus that...

Panama hospitals on verge of collapse as virus cases surge

Hospitals in Panama are on the brink of collapse as coronavirus cases spike in the Central American country worst hit by the pandemic, where...

Colombia goes on lockdown

Montevideo"•Countries across Latin America have tightened measures to halt the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus, with more lockdowns, border and school closures as...

Erdogan, Istanbul rival lock horns over ‘crazy canal’

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Panama marks 20 years in charge of canal, faces climate threat

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Ex-president of Panama acquitted of espionage rap

Panama City—Panama’s ex-president Ricardo Martinelli was acquitted on charges of spying on political foes and misappropriation of public funds in a court decision Friday. The...
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