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The Panama Canal celebrates 110 years of operation on Thursday, and there are many curiosities and anecdotes related to the colossal interoceanic route, built by the United States after the French debacle. Here are five notable facts: 1.The Canal Gave Birth to a Country Panama’s independence from Colombia in 1903 […]

From a colorful, sometimes controversial opening ceremony to boxers caught up in a gender row to respectful bows on the gymnastics podium, the 2024 Olympics served up many memorable moments. Here’s a look at 10 of the best: 1. Rain on opening ceremony parade  (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne / POOL […]

Panama overcame the defeat of boxer Atheyna Bylon in Paris 2024 and proudly celebrated the first Olympic medal ever won by a Panamanian woman, a silver achieved in a sport that has produced over thirty world champions for the country. Bylon, a police officer, lost to China’s Li Qian by […]

Rosa Romero never imagined that she could be evicted from her humble home on a beach in El Salvador. However, real estate and tourism investments, driven by President Nayib Bukele’s anti-gang crusade, have left her cornered. Like her in El Higuerón, 175 km southeast of the capital San Salvador, hundreds […]

After criminals recently forced a family to leave their home in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, the owner again tried to rent it out, this time, to a young couple. On moving day, the pair and three friends helping them were kidnapped. Their bodies were found nearby a week later. The […]

The United States deported a former local police chief to Guatemala on Monday, who was involved in the homicide of two people in an indigenous village, including a Canadian, the Police reported. “Deported and captured ex-policeman implicated in crimes against Canadian and Guatemalan,” the Guatemalan Police stated on the social […]

Pope Francis called this Sunday to “seek the truth” in Venezuela amid allegations of fraud in President Nicolás Maduro’s re-election, while opposition leader María Corina Machado thanked seven European countries for requesting the publication of the election records. The pontiff’s call comes after requests from the United States and several […]

At least 12 priests have been arrested in recent days in a new wave of detentions targeting Catholic Church clergy in Nicaragua, according to a human rights NGO operating from exile in Costa Rica. “In the last 48 hours, there has been a repressive escalation against priests of the Catholic […]

The economies of Central America need to strengthen their “financial resilience” against the effects that climate change may cause, representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) indicated this Tuesday in Costa Rica. At the end of the XVIII Regional Conference on Central America and the Dominican Republic, Nigel Chalk, Deputy […]

“Unheard of,” “unjustified,” “typical of dictatorial regimes”: The decision by Nicolás Maduro’s government to demand the withdrawal of diplomatic personnel from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Uruguay from Venezuela, and to order the withdrawal of its own from these countries, has generated diverse reactions. These […]