Sandra Cuffe

Pana­ma has Cen­tral Amer­i­ca’s only law for rare dis­ease health­care, but ad­vo­cates say it is not be­ing ful­ly im­ple­ment­ed.

Sur­vivors de­cry new amnesty bill that would free per­pe­tra­tors of crimes against hu­man­i­ty dur­ing the 1960-1996 civ­il war.

Gabriel Boric may be hin­dered by deeply frag­ment­ed Con­gress, where ne­go­ti­a­tions will be nec­es­sary to ad­vance his agen­da.

In­creased turnout ex­pect­ed in runoff elec­tion be­tween far-right and so­cial-de­mo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­dates.

Rel­a­tives of Pinochet vic­tims raise alarm as dic­ta­tor­ship emerges as key is­sue in lead-up to Sun­day pres­i­den­tial runoff.

Far-right Jose An­to­nio Kast and pro­gres­sive Gabriel Boric to vie for cen­trists, dis­af­fect­ed vot­ers in Sun­day’s runoff.

Years in the mak­ing, the new law in­cludes recog­ni­tion of parental ties and adop­tion rights for mar­ried same-sex cou­ples.

A runoff elec­tion be­tween left-wing and far-right fron­trun­ners is ex­pect­ed but not a giv­en.

Left­ist and far-right pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates are two clear fron­trun­ners head­ing into Chilean elec­tions on Sun­day.

The Guatemalan palm oil in­dus­try, world’s six largest, faces re­sis­tance from In­dige­nous peo­ple de­mand­ing land rights.