Eight Sephardic Jews living in Panama received Spanish citizenship last week, attempting to heal a 500-year-old wound. The new Spanish citizens were descendants of Jews who were violently expelled from Spain in 1492. In 2015, the Spanish government approved a…
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A $5.48 billion mining operation that will rival the Panama Canal’s impact on Panama’s economy is on track to launch in 2018. The Cobre Panama mine is about 50 percent complete and should be delivering more than 320,000 tonnes of…
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A new initiative is seeking to expand the number of tourist offerings in Panama City, hoping to entice tourists to look beyond the Canal and Casco Viejo. An agency called La Metropolitana de Turismo, a subsidiary of the Municipality of…
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Panama’s convention is slowly starting to move up the world’s rankings, according to the latest data from the International Association of Congresses and Conventions (ICCA). While still lagging the world’s big convention destinations, Panama moved from 19 to 10 in…
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