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La Estrella de Panamá is the oldest daily newspaper in Panamá. [1] The newspaper originally began in 1849 as a Spanish-language translation insert of an English daily, The Panama Star, which had been formed in 1849. [2] It has a circulation of approximately 8,000 print copies. [3]
La Estrella de Panamá ... "Panama". Provisional Census of Current Latin American Newspaper Holdings in UK Libraries. UK: Advisory Council on Latin American and ...
A series of protests began in Panama on 20 October 2023 following the immediate passing of a 20-to-40-year mining contract between the government of Panama and First Quantum Minerals, [6] the operator of Cobre Panamá, the largest open-pit copper mine in Central America, placed 20 minutes away from the western coast of Colon Province and within a protected area of the Mesoamerican Biological ...
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Panama has been an important mass media hub, because of its strategic location between North and South America. The largest newspapers in Panama are La Prensa, La Estrella, Panama America, Critica, and El Siglo, all of which are published in Panama City. Weekly newspapers include the Critica Libre and La Cronica.
1849 - Panama Star English-language newspaper begins publication. [6] 1853 - La Estrella de Panamá newspaper in publication. [citation needed] 1855 - Panama Railway begins operating. [7] 1856 - April 15: Watermelon Riot. 1878 - Fire. 1880 - Bishop's palace built. [7] 1881 - Panama Canal construction begins. [8] 1882 - L'Hospital Notre Dame de ...
The 1968 Panamanian coup d'état was the military coup that took place in the Republic of Panama on October 11, 1968, when the National Guard, led by Major Boris Martínez, Lieutenant Colonel Jose Humberto Ramos, Rubén Darío Paredes and other military officers overthrew President Arnulfo Arias, who was elected in the May 12 general election and assumed office on October 1.
In 1985, Lowe de Goodin wrote a play, De Barbados a Panamá (From Barbados to Panama) to tell the story of the Caribbean migrants who came to work on the Panama canal. The drama tells of the discrimination faced by Afro-Caribbean and Chinese laborers, who built the canal and railroad, and the legal impediments which required them to speak ...