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Watch: Panama Presidential Candidate Films Crash from Inside Helicopter

A pre-candidate for Panama’s 2024 presidential election named Dimitri Flores filmed himself traveling inside a helicopter as it crashed into a Panamanian mountainside on August 10, Brazil’s Universo Online (UOL) media outlet reported on Wednesday, noting that the politician survived the crash along with four other passengers and the helicopter’s pilot.

Dimitri Flores, candidate for presidency in Panama, films a helicopter crash from inside t

Panama Announces 60K Haitian Migrants Moving to U.S.

Panama’s foreign minister warns that as many as 60,000 Haitian migrants are likely headed to the U.S. after passing through her country. The new wave of Haitians follows the release by the Biden Administration of thousands from the Del Rio brdige camp crisis earlier this month.

Haitian migrants cross the jungle of the Darien Gap, near Acandi, Choco department, Colomb

Biden’s Migrants Raped in Panama Jungle

Bandits have raped at least 180 migrants since May, including children, as they walked through the deadly and lawless jungle separating Panama and Colombia on their way to President Joe Biden’s open border, the Wall Street Journal reported.

cameroon migrants

Xi Jinping Courts Panama: The Chinese Helped Build the Canal

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s tour of the Spanish-speaking world continued on Friday with his arrival in Argentina but, in preparation for his next stop, Xi penned an editorial published in Panama arguing that China and Panama had over 160 years of shared history.

'China-Panama relations have turned over a new leaf,' Chinese leader Xi Jinping