Masked men killed an indigenous activist from the Ngöbe-BuglĂ© people after a protest against the Barro Blanco dam in Panama’s western ChiriquĂ department.
Indigenous Ngöbe-Buglé activists continue to protest hydroelectric projects they say threaten their way of life in their own territory, despite previous pacts with the government.
Panama announced the arrest of the top leader of the Oficina de Envigado, a Colombian crime syndicate said to be a surviving remnant of Pablo Escobar's notorious Medellín Cartel.
With Chinese investment, Nicaragua is moving ahead with a new inter-oceanic canal planâin a race with Panama, which is expanding its own canal for a new era of global trade.
A suspected drug trafficker was killed in the first DEA-backed drug raid in Honduras following a five-month suspension in radar intelligence sharing between the countries.
Days of strikes and protests in Panama’s cities forced the government to cancel a planned sale of lands in the ColĂłn Free Trade Zone to multinational corporations.
