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Secretary Blinken’s Trip to Panama: Commitments to a Regional Approach to Hemispheric Migration and to Anti-Corruption Efforts

News from Panama

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Panama City, Panama April 19-20 to co-lead a Ministerial Conference on Migration and Protection and meet with President Laurentino Cortizo Cohen and Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes, as well as other leaders from across the hemisphere.  The U.S. delegation will deepen our ongoing efforts to improve bilateral and regional […]

April 22, 2022

Panama Canal Proposes New Toll System, Raising Transit Costs

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The Panama Canal Authority proposed a comprehensive restructuring of its toll system on Friday, which would increase rates charged on cargo such as vehicles, oil and gas and soybeans that cross the waterway as ocean shippers rake in record profits. The changes would reduce the current structure to fewer than 60 tariffs from 430 now and focus […]

April 8, 2022

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

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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

Nature now has legal rights in Panama

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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

Panama tightens security on Colombian border

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Panama has stepped up security along its jungle border with Colombia in an effort to detect irregular migration movements and members of criminal groups. Speaking in Meteti, Security Minister Juan Pino said Friday that the “Wana Humaradá” operation would focus on four strategic points of the Darien region. It aims to prevent drug trafficking, human […]

February 18, 2022