Until October 2022, inflation in Panama accumulates a growth of 3.1%, compared to the same period in 2021. Only in October it reflected a year-on-year variation of 1.7%, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), of the Institute National Statistics and Census (Inec) published by the General Accounting Office of the Republic. The groups that…
Eventually she will realize that VP is her fastest path to the Presidency. Ricardo is running so it’s over. A definitive closure of the Electoral Tribunal of the expulsion process of the 15 “rebel” deputies of the Cambio Democrático party, led by the current general secretary of this political group, Yanibel Ábrego, has been the…
The former President of the Republic Ricardo Martinelli Berrocal would not have any legal impediment to be the presidential standard-bearer of his Realizing Goals (RM) party, in the next general elections of 2024. Taking into account that the third criminal judge of the First Judicial Circuit of Panama, Baloisa Marquínez, summoned 36 people charged with…
Political parties with more than 100,000 adherents begin to organize with a view to holding their primary elections to choose the candidates who will represent them in the general elections on May 5, 2024. The first political group to publicly announce the date of its primary elections was the Panameñista Party, whose president José Isabel…
Panama has presented a growth like no region in Latin America (15% per year) according to World Bank statistics. However, despite this indicator, Panamanian wealth has remained in macroeconomic numbers and in very few hands. This makes it the third most unequal country in Latin America, also known as the least equal region on the planet. According…
Five women have been murdered this 2022, a situation that keeps society concerned Five women have been murdered this year in Chiriquí, this situation keeps society worried. The etiology of this particular form of criminality is multifactorial, but what is most important for these events to occur lies in the dysfunctionality of the family, said former…
The number of recorded disasters has increased fivefold – partly due to climate change caused by human activities and the multiplication of extreme weather events – and everything indicates that this trend will continue. Half of the world’s countries do not have early warning systems, and even fewer have regulatory frameworks to link early warnings…
For those that are soccer fans (like me), there is an interesting documentary on NETFLIX about the awarding of the World Cop of 2022 to QATAR. Indeed it was an odd and curious choice. Much ado of fraud and kickbacks started the investigations into FIFA. Now other groups are investigating the safety involved in the…
Representatives from 183 countries will participate between November 14 and 25 in Panama at the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites). More than 2,500 attendees are expected from the 183 countries that have signed the Convention, senior officials of the…
Young Iranians protested again this Sunday despite a warning from the powerful Revolutionary Guard to stop demonstrating and a strong repression in universities, in mobilizations that are becoming more violent. The protests took place throughout the country in numerous university centers in various cities, which were strongly repressed by the basiji – a volunteer militia…
