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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 31 January 2018
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Development: On 30 January, Panama’s 71-member unicameral national legislature rejected President Juan Carlos Varela’s choice of Zuleyka Moore and Ana Lucrecia Tovar de Zarak as magistrates for the nine-member supremecourt (CSJ) replacing two whose ten-year terms expire this month.... Read More
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