The Panama News blog links, April 14, 2016
Seatrade Maritime News, Second PanCanal draft restriction
Video, Transit in the new PanCanal locks
Hellenic Shipping News, Iran can now use Panama’s canal and ship registry
The Guardian, Nicaragua rejects bill to block the canal project
International Cry, Ngabe communities facing eviction
Reuters, Inside a Panamanian prison: a flawed legal system
The Intercept, Lawsuit over system that put a baby on the US no-fly list
BBC, Why Rousseff faces impeachment calls
Página 12, Cristina se presenta en el juzgado
AFP, Cristina: puede encarcelarme pero no voy a callar
Washington Post, Trump threatened to sue AP over Panama condo story
Forbes, Brazil charges world’s richest banker with bribery
Tico Times, Cuban migrants storm Costa Rica-Panama border demanding to pass
EFE, Costa Rica devolverá a Panamá a cubanos ilegales
Miami Herald, Costa Rica closes its doors to Cubans
Xinhua, Panamá pedirá a vecinos no impedir la migración cubana
Prensa Latina, Tico minister says US laws behind Cuban migration
Tico Times, Costa Rica seeks regional accord on illegal migrants
Sentinel-Tribune, US wind industry record
La Estrella, Potabilizadora de Penonomé está fuera de servicio
27east.com, Sag Harbor surfers to distrubute water filters in Bocas
Mongabay, Climate change is drying up small islands
Playa Community, Yellow bellied sea snakes coming onto Pedasi beaches
Christian Science Monitor, Red crabs swarm off Panama
STRI, What were Caribbean coral reefs like before humans?
Science Friday, The search for Peru’s “Boiling River”
Ancel, The lethal arms of the US drug war in Honduras
Zibechi, Building new worlds in Brazil’s favelas
Boff, What kind of Brazil do we want?
María & Romero, Chavismo from below
Bolton, Venezuela’s power outages and western press bias
Sánchez, Colombian civil society is the best bet for peace
Levy, Taking sides in the war within Islam
Stiglitz, What’s wrong with negative rates?
Varoufakis, Interview with The Economist
Springsteen, About North Carolina
US State Department, Annual human rights report on countries other than the USA
Variety, Latin American film distribution issues discussed at Panama film festival
Hollywood Reporter, Salsipuedes review
Variety, Guido Bilbao’s “El Bosque de las Paradoxas”
Variety, Panama International Film Festival kicks off with “Viva”
IFF Panama, People’s Choice Awards 2016 (Spanish & English)
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