Sunday night, leaders of the protesting banana workers and the government agreed to put a stop to the violence that has consumed Bocas del Toro this July. The clash between police and Bocas Fruit Company workers left at least two dead, a dozen injured and one hundred detained, according to official figures. It was...
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Tilapia farms are beginning to thrive in the mountainous regions of Capira, as are the communities that are aquaculturing the fish, La Prensa reports. Production, backed by Panama’s Aquatic Resources Authority, started in 2009. Now, just a year later, various communities have moved into commercial production and the establishment of packing plants is even...
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Panama has decided not to put former Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman on trial for money laundering charges after all. Aleman had been accused of using Panamanian bank accounts to launder around $58 million allegedly stolen from his country, but Panamanian courts decided that trying him would violate double jeopardy, the Associated Press reports. In...
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