Concerned by the recent attention Israel has been receiving for the bloody raid of the Gaza-bound Freedom Float, Israeli Ambassador to Panama Yoed Magen visited the El Siglo newspaper offices to give Israel’s official side of the story. “Israel did not attack any convoy,” the ambassador said. According to Magen, when the ships did...
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Back in January at the International Tourism Fair of Madrid, Panama’s Tourism Minister Salomon Shamah and Air Europa President Juan Jose Hidalgo were toasting champagne flutes over a collaboration agreement. According to the agreement, Air Europa would establish four weekly flights from Madrid to Panama by mid-October of this year, coupled with a three-year...
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President Martinelli fired Simon Becker, now former governor of the Bocas del Toro province, for what some speculate was a failure in carrying out orders. Becker began his gubernatorial term on July 1, 2009. On November 19, Minister of Government and Justice Jose Raul Mulino ordered the evictio of the Naso indians occupying the...
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