Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. It is unclear how long the group, which was deported under the Trump … Read more
Nearly a week after the United States sent roughly 300 migrants from around the world to Panama on military deportation flights, officials in Panama said on Tuesday that more than 170 had agreed to be deported to their countries of origin. The migrants are illegal U.S. border crossers whose countries of origin — mainly in … Read more
Amid pressure from the US, Panama is first Latin American country to leave Beijing’s global infrastructure club. China has slammed Washington’s “Cold War mentality” in Latin America after Panama quit its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China on Friday hit out at … Read more
President-elect Donald J. Trump refused on Tuesday to rule out the use of military or economic coercion to force Panama to give up control of the canal that America built more than a century ago and to push Denmark to sell Greenland to the United States. In a rambling, hourlong news conference, Mr. Trump repeatedly … Read more
A plane carrying a number of former Latin American presidents hoping to observe Venezuela’s anticipated elections this weekend was not allowed to take off from Tocumen airport in Panama, the country’s President Jose Raul Mulino said on Friday. The plane carrying former Panamanian president Mireya Moscoso and other ex-presidents was denied permission to “take off … Read more
Image source, MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images Image caption, Jurgen Mossack was one of the main defendants in the Panama Papers case Article information Author, Anna Lamche Role, BBC News 6 hours ago A Panamanian court has acquitted all 28 people charged with money laundering in connection with the Panama Papers scandal, concluding a trial … Read more
Tribunal disqualifies Martinelli’s candidacy over 10-year prison sentence for money laundering last year. Panama’s Electoral Tribunal has annulled the candidacy of former President Ricardo Martinelli in the presidential election set for May. The decision, announced late on Monday by the body’s president Alfredo Junca, appears to end Martinelli’s hopes of re-election. It comes a month … Read more