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On Wednesday evening, the President of the Republic of Panama, Laurentino Cortizo, signed an Executive Decree approving Law 242, which regulates the medicinal and therapeutic use of cannabis, along with its derivatives, in the Central American country. Law 242 was sanctioned by President...

LatAm Cann.BIZ, the most important cannabis event in Latin America, will be held, on September 1 and 2, at the Santa María Luxury Collection Hotel & Golf Resort in Panama City. The event, organized by El Planteo, the most read cannabis media outlet in the Spanish-speaking world, PR...

Panama's National Assembly approved a bill regulating the use and commercialization of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). The country serves as a hub of offshore financial services. What Happened: According to a Friday Reuters report, the bill allows...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. Flora Growth Corp. (NASDAQ: FLGC), a cannabis company with low-cost cultivation and global distribution, recently reached a non-binding...

By Franca Quarneti via El Planteo Panama's National Legislative Assembly approved a bill legalizing medical cannabis in a unanimous vote of 40 to zero. Thus, the country will become the first in Central America to regulate the medicinal use of cannabis. However, the new regulations...

After 10 years of work and $5.4 billion in investments, the new access lane to the Panama Canal will open on Sunday, tripling the capacity of the original canal, which was inaugurated more than a century ago. As readers might imagine, expectations have been building up for quite some time, and so...

With its alliterative moniker, the Panama Papers scandal has brought to light a colossal calumny of massive proportions. The gargantuan document leak published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists indicts a "clandestine network" including Russia's President...

On Monday, Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) announced that its Phoenix Tower International (PTI) portfolio company had purchased T4U Holding Brasil S.A. Phoenix intends to merge the business, which includes more than 500 wireless towers, into its Brazilian operating company. Along with the 529...

Managed by Thomas Herzfeld, the Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund, Inc (NASDAQ: CUBA) invests in several companies in the Caribbean, but focuses mostly on U.S. companies that capitalize on Caribbean progress. It should be noted, though, that the ticker under which it trades is somewhat misleading,...