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


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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

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

Coffee in the Clouds


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Click on the pictures for videos below of our coffee tour It was late Sunday night when I saw an email come in from my friend Rich who had just returned from Europe after 4 weeks of eating his way through Italy and France with his wife Dee.   I was almost out of my month’s […]

April 21, 2019

Paradise on the Chiriqui Coast


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  Here is part 2 of our series of road trips here in Panama on the Chiriqui coast in the province where we live.  We are extremely fortunate to have found this place when we first came here twelve years ago.    Like many people, my wife and I often took trips abroad to see other lands with […]

February 22, 2018

Paradise in Boquete


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We have been taking people around Boquete looking at places to live, invest in land and business opportunities and every-time I go out, I see another place that reminds me of the first trip that I took here in 2006.  On my first road trip to Boquete, I knew I had finally found a place that I had […]

February 22, 2018

Boquete Country Club Condo For Sale – $235,000


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Click on the above picture for a aerial tour of Boquete Club Boquete Country Club is a truly inspirational master planned gated community located just five minutes from the town of Boquete. The design of Boquete Country Club, promises a different and special lifestyle. Combining a myriad of leisure facilities and world-class infrastructure including a […]

January 9, 2018

Cuban Tobacco, Rum among Attractions at Trade Fair in Panama


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Prensa Latina reports on the upcoming International Trade Fair Expocomer 2017. Cuban Tobacco, Rum among Attractions at Trade Fair in Panama <p><img src=”http://piwik.prensa-latina.cu/piwik.php?idsite=3″ style=”border:0″ alt=”” /></p> The presentation of the new purito Cohíba Short and the tasting of the best Cuban rums stands out today among Cuba”s main attractions at the upcoming International Trade Fair […]

March 21, 2017

A New Industrial Law for Panama


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A new bill, agreed between the government and the private sector, expands tax incentives granted to companies in the sector through the Certificate of Industrial Promotion. The text was drafted after the government and the private sector reached consensus on how to define tax incentives to which companies in the sector are entitled to. The project […]

March 21, 2017

Panama Revisited: Wow!


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Barney Brantingham of Independent News revists Panama after decades to find huge changes to the City.   When I first laid eyes on Panama City many decades ago, it was basically a sleepy, low-profile town. Its only claim to fame was the famed canal. Today, it’s the skyscraper boom town of the hemisphere, boasting a skyline of […]

March 21, 2017