Vice-president declared the victor with 60% of votes counted, seeing off attempt by outgoing leader to hand-pick successor Panama's vice-president Juan Carlos Varela was declared the victor of the country's presidential election on Sunday, thwarting an attempt by former ally and incumbent Ricardo Martinelli to extend his grip on power by electing a hand-picked successor. With 60% of ballots counted,...
Police in Panama dispose of a eight-tonne seizure of illegal drugs, including cocaine, cannabis and heroin, by setting it on fire. The massive haul came from various anti-narcotic operations throughout the country as cartels from Mexico and parts of South America use Panama as a regional corridor to smuggle drugs north towards the US Continue reading... ...
Swaths of rainforest affected by 'narco-deforestation' caused by landing strips and roads built by and for drug traffickers According to Kendra McSweeney: "Drug trafficking is causing an ecological disaster in Central America." McSweeney, a geographer at Ohio State University, is the co-author of a recent report on the little-known phenomenon of "narco-deforestation" that is destroying...
As urban populations soar, so does the demand for fair and sustainable access to housing and transport and where there is a need, there's also an opportunity to innovate Latin American cities may be diverse but they hold one similarity: the speed and scale of urbanisation they are facing. Distinct from developed countries, where urbanisation has historically occurred gradually, major cities in this...
What can a growing middle class and narrowing gap between rich and poor in Latin America teach the development sector? Emerging economies and the middle class is one of the topics at this week's World Economic Forum on Latin America (1-3 April) in Panama City. The event, bringing together the public, private and civil sectors, hopes to focus on inclusivity, sustainability and environmental issues around...
vandals who hate the people' A National Guardsman and a civilian have been killed in Caracas after a group of men on motorcycles rode into a neighbourhood to remove a street barricade erected by anti-government protesters. The clash that erupted on Thursday in the mixed industrial and residential district of Los Ruices heightened tensions on the same day the Venezuelan government expelled foreign diplomats...
Havana says missiles, jets and other weapons were being sent for repair as vessel is held over suspected UN sanctions breach Cuba has confirmed a North Korean cargo ship seized in Panama was carrying missiles, fighter jets and other armaments that were loaded in Cuban ports but claimed it was "obsolete defensive weaponry" being sent away for repair. Panamanian authorities stopped the freighter...
Security minister says Panama plans to hand over ship and its content to United Nations representatives Panama said on Wednesday it had called in the United Nations security council to investigate a North Korean ship caught smuggling arms from Cuba, piling more pressure on Pyongyang for a possible breach of UN sanctions. ...
Robert Seldon Lady was convicted in absentia in Italy four years ago for kidnapping an Egyptian Muslim cleric Former CIA Milan station chief Robert Seldon Lady, who was convicted in Italy of kidnapping an Egyptian Muslim cleric and recently arrested in Panama , is headed back to the United States, a State Department spokeswoman said on Friday. "It is my understanding that he is in fact either...
Jets uncovered with missile radar systems were on list of ordnance provided by Cuban government Panamanian investigators unloading the cargo of a seized North Korean ship that carried arms from Cuba have found the two MiG-21 fighter jets the Cuban government had said were on board, the government said on Sunday. Alongside the two supersonic planes, originally produced by the Soviet Union in the late...
Official says crew will go, but Panama rejects Pyongyang's request for direct negotiations over the Chong Chon Gang Panama is likely to return the 35-member crew of a North Korean ship detained for smuggling Cuban weapons to their native country in about a month, a government official familiar with the incident said on Tuesday. "They're going to leave soon, like in a month, most likely they'll...
Panama believes 33 of the 35 crew on Chong Chon Gang, apprehended in July, did not know it carried arms from Cuba The North Korean crew and ship detained in Panama for smuggling Cuban weapons three months ago will soon be returned to the reclusive Asian nation, Panama's foreign minister said on Thursday. The crew's return would mark the end of a bizarre chapter between the three countries that provoked...
Conservationists are hoping they have not seen the last of this species in the wild after a fungal disease that swept through Central America decimated amphibian populations Sir David Attenborough has bought us a great many wonders of the natural world, and more recently, he has started to bring us some painful home truths about our impact on it. If there's one piece of footage that sums this up perfectly,...
Scientists ask whether humans care only for species from which they can extract benefit, and dismiss the rest as 'worthless' In pictures: 100 most endangered species The list in full Few people would notice the willow blister, a spore-shooting fungus that grows parasitically on twigs in a small corner of Wales. Fewer still are likely to realise that this is one of the rarest fungi in the world, a distinction...
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• US biotechnology firm AquaBounty given green light • FDA expected to follow with decision on sale of GM salmon Suzanne Goldenberg ...
My friend Ken Bodden, who has died aged 63 from a heart attack, was an unforgettable person who seemed to have lived several lives. A committed socialist, political activist, paralympic skier and musician, Ken defied convention and categorisation. Born in Panama, to a Honduran father, Dorrel, and Jamaican-Irish mother, Avenel, Ken lost his sight to retinoblastoma at a very early age. But it was easy...
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s claim that it was only sending equipment to North Korea for repairs and expected it to be returned. The contraband hidden in a cargo of sugar included MiG aircraft and motors, missiles and anti-aircraft missile systems. UN sanctions forbid North Korea from trading arms to deprive it of technology and revenue because of its pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. If the Cuban equipment...
s investigation and prosecution of Robert Seldon Lady said the former CIA official entered Panama, traveled to Costa Rica, and that officials there then sent him back to Panama where he was detained. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because only Italy's justice ministry was publicly discussing the case. In Panama City, Panamanian security minister Jose Raul Molino told The Associated Press...