The Panama News blog links, December 27, 2015
CM, ACP claims expanded Panama Canal will open no later than June
Xinhua, Inician trabajos de remoción de tapón norte del canal
gCaptain, Cruise ship runs aground off of Coiba
Video, Wingsuit diver over Panama
Boxing Scene, Corrales and Arboleda win by KO in Panama
Video, Concepción vs. Márquez III
MITRADEL, La nueva tasa del salario mínimo (PDF)
El País, Carlos Slim perdió el equivalente a la economía de Honduras en 2015
Reuters, The IRS can now take your US passport
Miller, “Maximum economic freedom” doesn’t cure economic woes
Chavkin, World Bank rolls out reforms to address resettlement failures
VOA, Panama’s supreme court orders ex-president’s arrest
Telemetro, Pleno de la Asamblea ratifica a Cedalise y Russo para magistrados
Chiriquí Natural, Demanda contra termoelectrica en Chorrera
STRI, Three-dimensional forest carbon map of Panama
thejournal.ie, Glow in the dark shark
Goldstein, CDC finds record number of Americans drinking themselves to death
The Guardian, Hyde Park visitors covertly tracked via mobile phone data
UCLA Newsroom, Researchers create strong and lightweight new metal
Quartz, NASA tested a 3D-printed rocket engine and it worked
The Japan Times, Central America tests drought-resistant beans
Boff, La COP 21 pavimenta el camino hacia el desastre
Democrats Abroad, March 1-8 Global Presidential Primary
Boeglin, El fallo de la CIJ entre Costa Rica y Nicaragua: breves apuntes
Castañeda, The tides of Latin American populism
Vatican Radio, Pope Francis’s Urbi et Orbi message
Video, A century after the Armenian Genocide
Hersh, Military to military
Chellaney, Saudi Arabia’s phony war on terror
Amnesty International, Syria’s refugee crisis in numbers
Castro, Migrantes: de un pájaro dos alas
EFE, Stranded Cuban migrants celebrate Christmas in Panama
EFE, Cardenal panameño pide solución política a crisis de los migrantes cubanos
TVN, Carnaval tableño dividido entre tres reinas
Video, Fashion Week Panama 2015
La Estrella, El sacrificio del muñeco
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