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The discovery of gold also saw their use in mining. This strong dependency on slaves saw an increase in the slave population. For most of the 1600s and 1700s, Afro-Panamanians outnumbered whites. In 1610, the population consisted of 548 white men, 303 white women, 156 white children, 146 mulattoes, 148 West Indian blacks, and 3,500 African ...
Gloria Karamañites (born 24 December 1960) is a Panamanian actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She became the first Black woman to win the Miss Panamá beauty pageant title in 1980 and is the subject of the Miss Panama (2021) documentary.
Carlos Rafael Meneses Lambis (born 1965) is a Panamanian criminal, murderer and accused serial killer.Charged with the murders of two women killed in 2003 and 2004, and suspected in the disappearance of his wife, Meneses has thus far avoided arrest and continues to be on the run.
Jamaica earned a historic first-ever Women’s World Cup win on Saturday, defeating Panama 1-0 following a goal from captain Allyson Swaby.
Young women in Panama, particularly those who are single, are regarded as persons with "very high symbolic status", including giving them roles as Carnaval Queens. One particular example of such reverence of female adolescents is the celebration of the inna suid by the Kuna Indians , which is a three-day celebration of the adolescent girls ...
“God Is a Woman,” a doc by Swiss-Panamanian filmmaker Andrés Peyrot about Pierre Dominique Gaisseau’s 1975 journey to Panama to make a film on the island-dwelling Kuna people — whose ...
The Afro-Antillean Museum of Panama (Spanish: Museo Afroantillano de Panamá) simply known as the Afro-Antillean Museum or MAAP, is an ethnographic museum located in Panama City. The museum was founded on December 23, 1980, by Reina Torres de Araúz in the building of the Former Christian Mission Chapel .
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