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Panama's boom helps drive Nicaragua canal dreams

Curundu used to be a warren of ramshackle wooden houses and reeking open sewers, one of Panama City's most notorious refuges for street gangs and drug dealers.Full story

Side-Impact Tectonics Created Colombia's Strange Geology

A car crash-like collision between tectonic plates offshore of Colombia helps explain the region's unusual geology, a new study finds. Full story

Magnitude 5.6 quake strikes Panama/Costa Rica border region: USGS

(Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 on Monday struck the border region of the contiguous Central American nations of Panama and Costa Rica, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Full story

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