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Panama arrests fugitive Ecuadorean ex-lawmaker

PANAMA CITY ā€“ Police in Panama on Monday arrested a fugitive former opposition lawmaker from Ecuador who is wanted in his homeland for complicity to murder.

El Salvadorā€™s Funes urges Panama to give up fugitive ex-President Flores

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador ā€“ El Salvadorā€™s President Mauricio Funes asked Panama on Saturday not to grant political asylum to former Salvadoran President Francisco Flores, who is wanted on allegations that he misappropriated more than $15 million donated from the government of Taiwan.

Costa Rica smashes human smuggling ring; 5 cops arrested, 47 Nicaraguan immigrants discovered in stash house

In 24 simultaneous raids early Saturday morning in the northwestern province of Guanacaste, Judicial Investigation Police took down a well-coordinated international human smuggling ring that operated in both Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Police had known about the criminal network for 10 years.

Venezuelans flock to Panama to escape Maduro economy

Leonardo Zambranok, who moved from Venezuela almost three years ago to take a marketing job with Procter & Gamble Co. in Panama, has watched the wave of violent protests back home and says he knows he made the right choice.

Mexico frees 179 kidnapped Central America migrants

Five people handling the migrants, who were from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua, were arrested, an official in the prosecutor's office told AFP.

Immigration Administration has new, easy-to-remember information hotline

High call volume has prompted Costa Ricaā€™s Immigration Administration to update call center services starting this week, including a shorter and easier-to-remember information phone number: 1311.

Panama must clean up its act to become Americas’ Singapore

With the world's second-largest free-trade zone, Latin America's fourth-busiest airport, four container-vessel seaports, the Pan-American Highway and numerous free-trade agreements, Panama is on its way to becoming the Singapore of the Americas.

Obama’s State of the Union highlights executive actions

WASHINGTON, D.C. ā€“ U.S. President Barack Obama sought Tuesday to restore public confidence in his presidency after a dispiriting year, pledging to use his White House authority with new force to advance an agenda that Congress has largely failed to support.

Panama becomes first Central American country to join US Global Entry Program

Panamanian travelers enrolled in the program will be allowed to skip immigration lines when they visit the United States.

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