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A series of protests began in Panama on 20 October 2023 following the immediate approval 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 ...
Anti-mining protests that have roiled Panama for the last two weeks turned deadly on Tuesday ... mining company First Quantum and its subsidiary Minera Panama in Panama City on November 8, 2023 ...
Protests extended into a second week Monday over a long-term copper mining concession for a Canadian company, as Panama's government sought to calm anger by promising to let Panamanians decide in ...
November 9, 2023 at 4:16 AM Two people have died after a motorist fired shots during a protest against a disputed mining contract in Panama on Tuesday, 7 November.
On 18 July, Panama City saw the country's largest protest. [6] President Laurentino Cortizo's government deal to cut fuel prices was rejected by trade unions. [7] Protestors blocked sections of the transcontinental Pan-American Highway. [8] On 27 July, security minister Juan Manuel Pino Forero said that the roads were clear for the first time. [9]
After Panama gained independence from Colombia in 1903, with the assistance of the U.S., there was resentment amongst some Panamanians as a result of the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty, which ceded control of the Panama Canal Zone to the U.S. "in perpetuity" in exchange for a 10 million dollar initial payment and yearly 250 thousand dollar payments thereafter.
(Reuters) -Panama will reject all new mining projects, the president said on Friday, as his government defends a controversial contract extending operations for two decades at a major copper mine ...
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