The Panamanian government has asked Germany for assistance in building the viaduct that would connect the Cinta Costera to the Bridge of the Americas across the Bay of Panama. This controversial project has conservation groups in the Casco Viejo up in arms since the elevated marine viaduct would pass about 655 feet from the...
The Panamanian embassy in Quito, Ecuador granted journalist Carlos Perez Barriga asylum today, Thursday. Perez Barriga, editor of the daily El Universo newspaper, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $40 million in a case of criminal libel against Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa. The complaint stemmed from opinion editor Emilio Palacio’s February...
Panama delivered more than $25,000 in charity money to Central American countries impacted by last year’s tropical storms. The money was raised last November through the “Voices for Central America” concert and divided among El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. If the math is correct, each country received approximately $6,250. Minister of Foreign Relations,...
Costa Rica has reacted to the unrest in Panama by closing the the Paso Canoas border between the two countries, A.M. Costa Rica reports. Demonstrations and road blocks by the Ngöbe Bugle indigenous people over mining rights in their territory have led to violent confrontations between protesters and the national police in Panama. The protests,...
Panama announced that it has formalized diplomatic relations with Mongolia. The Ministry of Foreign Relations said that the countries have agreed to a relationship based on the terms of the 1961 Vienna Convention, United Nations principles and international law. Broadly speaking, the idea is to develop a friendly and cooperative political, economic and humanitarian...
