Archive for December 4th, 2010

Colombian national Blanca Donado became the first woman to receive Panama’s new maximum prison sentence of 30 years late Friday night. Donado was convicted  of the December 13, 2007 murder of lawyer Juan Carlos Dudley. Donado’s accomplice, Melanie Narvaez, also Colombian, was sentenced to 28 years in prison. Panama’s revised penal code, published on...
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Chance, the movie from Panamanian director Abner Benaim, is in the running for the Best Spanish-language foreign film at the 2011 Goya Awards, the Spanish equivalent of the U.S. Oscars. “It’s a good feeling to be pre qualified for the Goya,” Benaim told The Panama Digest from New York City, where the film is...
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