Tag: Boquete Real Estate

Panama – Regulation to the law that creates the private and unique system of registration of beneficial owners of legal entities

News from Panama

ASSIGNMENT OF A UNIQUE REGISTRATION CODE (HEREINAFTER “CUR”): Every lawyer or law firm that intends to provide resident agent services for Panamanian legal entities must be registered in the Unique System of the Superintendence of Non-Financial Subjects. After their registration, the Superintendence of Non-Financial Subjects will assign a Unique Registration Code (hereinafter “CUR”) to each […]

April 8, 2022

The Darien, a Gap between Hope and Despair

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With a bag full of hopes and dreams, Iriana Ureña, a 32-year-old Venezuelan mother of two, arrived at a Migrant Reception Station (ERM) in San Vicente, at the edge of the Darien Gap. The look in her eyes showing the pain of a mother who would do anything to protect her children. Iriana and her […]

April 8, 2022

Panama promotes electric mobility

News from Panama

According to Juan Octavio Díaz, president of the House of Batteries, in Latin America and the world this is an unstoppable trend despite the resistance of many industries that do not want to lose their market. The specialist explained to the newspaper La Prensa that electric mobility will be the common denominator on the planet, […]

April 2, 2022

Panama struggling to recapture past boxing glory

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It can be heard said on the streets of Panama that boxing transcends sport in that country and is in fact a religion in itself. Several generations of people have grown up knowing that one of the greatest fighters of all time, Roberto “Manos de Piedra” (Hands of Stone) Duran, was born in that Central […]

March 25, 2022

Can a New Central American Alliance Nudge Ortega?

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Costa Rica’s next president will guide a pro-democracy pact with Panama and the Dominican Republic. Costa Rica is sometimes called the “Switzerland of Central America” due to its history of democracy, disarmament, political neutrality, and economic prosperity relative to other countries in its neighborhood. That fourth pillar was badly shaken during the COVID-19 pandemic. With […]

March 18, 2022

Nature now has legal rights in Panama

News from Panama

It’s Tuesday, March 1, and Panama just recognized nature’s “right to exist.” Panama’s president, Laurentino Cortizo, signed into law far-reaching protections for the natural world last week. The legislation, which was debated for more than a year in Panama’s National Assembly, recognizes the natural world as a “unique, indivisible, and self-regulating community of living beings” […]

March 18, 2022