Panama’s First Lady and wife of President Martinelli, Marta Linares de Martinelli, flew to Denver yesterday to attend Project C.U.R.E.’s 5th Annual First Ladies’ Luncheon. This year, the Commission on Urgent Relief and Equipment’s project is to gather funds to support the hospitals in Panama’s most vulnerable areas. In past years, the luncheons have fundraised...
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The multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima will visit Panama on its 2010 Continuing Promise humanitarian tour. The 40,000 ton goodwill-ambassador deployed from its home-port in Norfolk, Va. on July 12 and has just left Miami loaded with supplies. More than 1,600 sailors, marines, soldiers, airmen and civilians will travel to to Haiti, Colombia,...
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