Panama trade

Costa Rica requested the creation of an arbitration panel at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on its dispute with Panama

Panama has 386 deaths and more than 16,000 infected by the new coronavirus, the worst such figures in Central America.

Panama is the Central American country worst-hit by the coronavirus with 13,000 infections and nearly 350 deaths

After Panama requested an urgent meeting last month at the Organization of American States to discuss the deteriorating situation in Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro ruptured diplomatic ties with the Central American nation, accusing “the lackey government of a right-wing president” of plotting with Washington to intervene in Venezuela.