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A series of protests began in Panama on 20 October 2023 following the immediate passing of a 20-to-40-year mining contract between the government of Panama and First Quantum Minerals, [6] the operator of Cobre Panamá, the largest open-pit copper mine in Central America, placed 20 minutes away from the western coast of Colon Province and within a protected area of the Mesoamerican Biological ...
Weekly newspapers include the Critica Libre and La Cronica. All of these are published in Spanish, and are also based in Panama City. The media of Panama has been highly influenced by that of the United States, since the construction of the Panama Canal. Radio broadcasting in Panama began in 1922, and television broadcasting in 1956.
"Panama". Provisional Census of Current Latin American Newspaper Holdings in UK Libraries . UK: Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources. 14 April 2011.
4 May – Panama bans First Quantum Minerals from extracting copper following the closure of its Cobre Panamá mine in 2023. [3] 5 May – 2024 Panamanian general election. [4] José Raúl Mulino is elected as President. [5] [6] 7 June – One person is killed in a gun attack on a campus of the University of Panama in Veraguas Province. [7]
In July 2022, protests broke out in Panama. They were reportedly triggered by rising inflation, corruption, and a cost of living crisis. [4] The economy has suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Russo-Ukrainian War. [5] On 18 July, Panama City saw the country's largest protest. [6]
General elections were held in Panama on 5 May 2024 to elect a new President of Panama, members of the National Assembly and local governments. [2] [3] Due to constitutional term limits, incumbent president Laurentino Cortizo was ineligible for a second consecutive term. [4]
The newspaper was founded in 1980 by I. Roberto Eisenmann Jr., [4] who had returned to Panama in 1979 after living in exile for three years in the United States. Created to oppose the military dictatorship of Omar Torrijos, [5] the paper published its first issue on August 4, 1981.
El Siglo ("The Century") is a Spanish language daily newspaper published in Panama. It was founded on 9 January 1985 and as of 2010 had the largest circulation of any Panamanian newspaper. [ 2 ]