It looks like Manuel Noriega will be going to France with no more ifs or buts about it. The former Panama strongman appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider his extradition after the January decision to send him to France to face money-laundering charges. The Court refused to reconsider and did not offer...
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Panama City Rivers are polluted because citizens throw their garbage into them. Silvano Vergara, National Director of the Watershed stressed the importance of not dumping contaminants or waste into bodies of water. “Water is not an inexhaustible resource,” Vergara said. ”It is a finite resource and there is evidence that our water sources are...
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The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is concerned about the consequences of energy, mining and tourism projects on indigenous communities in Panama. “The committee is concerned, in particular, with the violence and use of police force in these incidents,” says the March 16, 2010 report. “The situation is even more...
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