Panama

Magazine articles on politics and society in Panama.

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Outside September 2004 Ben Ryder Howe	An Impossible Place To Be Panama's mythic Darien Gap--a 10,000-square-mile swath of jungle on the border of Central and South America--has swallowed explorers for centuries. Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land.
Smithsonian March 2004 Bob Cullen	A Man, A Plan, A Canal: Panama Rises The Central American nation, now celebrating its centennial, has come into its own since the United States ceded control of its vital waterway.
IDB America November 2003 Roger Hamilton	A century of art and nationhood IDB stages a 100-year retrospective of some of Panama's most celebrated artists
IDB America April 2003	IDB supports sustainable growth and fiscal management in Panama The IDB and Panamanian government officials signed two loans totaling $25.2 million to support a program for the sustainable development of the country's Bocas del Toro region and a program to strengthen the fiscal management of the public sector.
IDB America December 2002	IDB supports sustainable development in Panama The IDB has approved financing of $15.2 million for the first of two phases of a $46.9 million program to promote sustainable development in the Bocas del Toro region of Panama.
IDB America November 2002 Roger Hamilton	Development by dialogue Panama's Darien Province is showing how people can control and shape development even in the most difficult circumstances.
IDB America July 2002 Claudia Neira	A trail-blazing lawyer Panamanian lawyer Angelica Maytin Justiniani does not hand down sentences or send anyone to jail, but she does wield another kind of justice by fighting for equal participation for all citizens in their democratic institutions.
IDB America July 2002 Claudia Neira	A pioneering businesswoman in a man's world Marcela Arias has always felt best when she is working. In 1997, Arias and 14 partners charted new, unfamiliar territory when they created Palmitos, S.A., the only company in Panama that produces and exports hearts of palm.
IDB America July 2002 Claudia Neira	A leader in investigative journalism Investigative reporting is a relative newcomer in the world of Central American journalism, where democracy and freedom of expression are gaining a stronger foothold. But Rolando Rodriguez, editor of the investigative unit of a Panama City newspaper, is already a veteran of this specialty.
Salon.com August 30, 2000 Mark Schapiro	Panama wants to stay out of the drug war Fearful of walking in the footsteps of Thailand during the Vietnam War, officials in Panama want to stay out of the U.S. offensive in Colombia.
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