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Former Panamanian president Martinelli leaves Nicaraguan embassy for asylum in Colombia

PANAMA CITY, Panama — Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli left the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City where he had sought refuge more than a year ago after the courts upheld a money ...
Reuters

Panama's ex-president Martinelli departs for asylum in Colombia

PANAMA CITY, May 10 (Reuters) - Colombia granted asylum to Panama's former President Ricardo Martinelli, Colombian authorities said on Saturday, and two sources close to the ex-president said that he ...
WBUR

Panama's efforts to stop U.S.-bound migrants from crossing the Darien Gap

Panama's President José Raúl Mulino is trying to stem the flow of migrants crossing the treacherous Darien Gap, a 70-mile stretch of undeveloped jungle near the Panama-Colombia border. After Mulino ...
Los Angeles Times

Panama to formalize long-used migrant smuggling boat route to handle ‘reverse flow’ south

PANAMA CITY — Panama said Tuesday that it’s working to formalize a route long favored to smuggle migrants on the way to the United States, which is now being increasingly used to return migrants to ...
Newsday

Venezuelans in 'reverse migration' pushed to new perils in effort to return home

JAQUE, Panama — As the boat bounced across choppy Pacific waters, Mariela Gómez and her two children huddled for 17 hours on top of sloshing gas tanks, uncertain of what lay ahead in the dense jungle.