In November 2023, following years of protest by Indigenous activists, Panama’s Supreme Court struck down Canadian company First Quantum Minerals’s twenty-year concession to operate a controversial thirteen-thousand-hectare open-pit copper mine, Cobre Panamá, 120 kilometers west of Panama City. After the ruling, Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo announced the mine would be…

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