https://www.themanual.com/outdoors/darien-gap-feature/ CONTENT NOT written by JB. The Pan-American Highway is an epic 19,000-mile route that starts at Prudhoe Bay in Alaska and terminates at the southernmost end of South America in Ushuaia, Argentina. It’s continuous except for a small section missing along the southern border of Panama, often referred to as one of the most…
I was always curious to know the reason why a kepi, one of those worn by members of the then Defense Forces, remained placed at the main entrance of the residence of ex-general Rubén Darío Paredes.It turns out that when Paredes decided to take his “good leap”, already outside the military institution, he became a…
At the end of the 80s, the economist Williams Hughes presented, together with the sociologist Iván Quintero, the book “Who are the owners of Panama?”, an x-ray of the time of how economic and political power was distributed in the countryAfter 36 years of the first edition of that study, the situation has become more…
Few cities in Latin America have a metro system linked to the airport. The Terminal Aérea station of line 5 that serves terminal 1 of the Benito Juárez airport (MEX) in Mexico City is one of the main examples. Some US cities such as San Francisco (SFO), Boston (BOS), Chicago (ORD), Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP), Washington…
A woman died on the morning of this Sunday, March 12, on Los Picachos de Olá hill, Coclé province, after being surprised by gusts of winds, falling to the precipice on the slopes of the hill.Units of the National Civil Protection System (Sinaproc) and the Fire Department went to the place to do the rescue…
” How is it the guy doing no huge rallies and announcements for himself, is leading?” “Because life was better overall under his leadership” Voting intention is maintained. If the elections were held this weekend, Ricardo Martinelli, José Gabriel Carrizo and Rómulo Roux would lead the results.Martinelli would win the elections with 31% of the…
The Panama Tourism Authority (Autoridad de Turismo de Panamá, ATP), together with the private sector and local governments, inaugurated the first phase for the Ruta de la Caldera in El Valle de Antón this Friday, composed of 30 kilometers of trails, aiming to position El Valle as an adventure tourism destination. This first phase that…
The remains were inside a “delivery” box from the company Orders Now. A pre-Hispanic mummy, between 600 and 800 years old, was found inside the backpack of a delivery man from a “delivery” company (home delivery) in the Peruvian region of Puno, adjacent to Bolivia, official sources reported Monday. . Through a statement, the Ministry…
Homeless people are also another relevant factor in the 2020 National Census, carried out this year by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Inec).Gilberto Sánchez, national coordinator of the special registration, explained to this outlet that this Monday the sweep directed at this population ends, which spread through provinces such as Colón, Panamá Oeste…
The National Migration Service revealed, this Thursday, the nationalities of the migrants who were traveling on the 5B-54 bus, which had an accident early yesterday morning in Gualaca, Chiriquí province.Of the 66 migrants, 22 were Ecuadorians, 16 Haitians and 11 Venezuelans, being the three nationalities that travel the most on the bus than on the…
