Hundreds of people were killed during Operation Just Cause. Trump has stoked fears the US could invade again. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/12/panama-canal-trump For Isabel Corro, Donald Trump’s suggestions that the US could use military force to take control of the Panama Canal evokes painful memories. The 79-year-old vividly recalls rushing her children inside her apartment on 20 December 1989 as…
https://apnews.com/article/edmundo-gonzalez-venezuela-panama-mulino-maduro-bb4637ef847d330bdb1e90a555c6197c PANAMA CITY (AP) — Days before Venezuela’s presidential inauguration, self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González was in Panama Wednesday rallying regional support for the opposition’s claims that he won the July election against President Nicolás Maduro. Accompanied by a dozen former Latin American leaders, González met with Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino at the presidential palace, where…
Keen example of how Interpol and US law can reach across the ocean and GRAB A THIEF BY THE THROAT. Promising to see. https://www.laestrella.com.pa/panama/en-panama-capturan-a-solicitado-por-ee-uu-en-operacion-contra-fraude-bancario-OB10112738 The National Police reported on Wednesday, January 8, that a Cuban citizen requested for extradition by the United States was arrested. According to the entity, this arrest was achieved in…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79191d9xreo Panama has insisted that its sovereignty over the Panama Canal is “non-negotiable” after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out military force to seize it. Trump made the remark during a news conference on Tuesday at which he also falsely stated that the Panama Canal was being operated by Chinese soldiers. Panama’s Foreign…
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests-use-military-force-acquire-panama-canal-greenland-econo-rcna186610 President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested he would consider using military force to gain control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, and “economic force” to acquire Canada. During a free-wheeling news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Trump was asked by a reporter if he could assure the public that he would not use military coercion…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjlqk0wv1no Panama on Tuesday started repatriating undocumented migrants on flights financed by the United States. The move comes less than two months after José Raúl Mulino was sworn in as Panama’s president. Mr Mulino campaigned on a promise to “close” the Darién Gap, the dangerous stretch of jungle which more than half a million migrants…
Varela’s BFF’s!!! https://indepthnews.net/the-chinese-investment-in-latin-america-is-changing/ BUENOS AIRES, Argentina | 17 August 2024 (IDN) — In the past decade, Chinese investment into Latin America has so often been characterised by large infrastructure projects: roads, railways, dams and ports, among others, frequently backed by state finance, and in many countries arriving under the banner of the Belt and Road Initiative. But in recent years, the…
https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/just-shut-up-and-publish-the-minutes-of-the-elections-in-venezuela-and-recognize-the-will-of-the-people-1 Nicolás Maduro’s recent statement that “whoever messes with Venezuela, dries up” is a desperate attempt to intimidate those who defend freedom and justice in the region. This warning, steeped in Caribbean superstition, where authoritarianism is mixed with Santeria and magical thinking, seeks to sow fear, but it will not find fertile ground in Panama. …
https://www.newsroompanama.com/world/venezuelan-opposition-calls-for-global-mobilization-august-17 Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado called for new protests on Saturday August 17 amid allegations of electoral fraud, after leftist President Nicolas Maduro was declared the winner for a third term. Very interesting information below as to how Maria has definitive proof that Maduro lost the election by falling into a trap…
https://www.laestrella.com.pa/mundo/america/opositora-machado-ve-posible-que-paises-vecinos-logren-negociacion-efectiva-en-venezuela-EX8202251 Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said on Wednesday that she does not rule out Colombia, Brazil and Mexico being able to establish an “effective” solution for Venezuela through negotiations following the crisis triggered by the questionable re-election of President Nicolás Maduro. “I do not rule out that this initiative could actually succeed…
