PANAMÁ

GLOBAL CLASSROOMS

A N G E L A A N D T E R E S A 3 º A

INDEXI. MAP

II. GOVERNMENT

III.PEOPLE

IV. DEVELOPMENT

V. ECONOMY

VI.UNITED NATIONS

VII.CONFLICTS/ISSUES

GOVERNMENTThe governmental system

of Panamá consists of a

constitutional republic with

Ricardo Martinelli as the

head of states. The official

language is Spanish. Panamá is

located in Central America.

Their allies are United States.

PEOPLE

The population of Panamá is 3.6 millions of people. The major religion there is Christianity

This is a cathedral in

Panamá

DEVELOPMENT

- The climate in Panamá are tropical maritime.

- Some of the enviromental problems are: water pollution, deforestation, land degradation and soil erosion, air pollution.

- Panamá has met the Millenium Development Goal targets.

ECONOMY

- It has the convoy system

- 7.5% of growth rate and 42,65 millions of GDP.

- The major cities are Colón, David and Chorrera.

- Its infrastructure status is well developed, so its generally good.

- One of the major sports are bananas.

- The major trade partners are United States, Mexico and Japan.

- It is a debtor nation of the IMF (International Monetary Found), World Bank Position.

- Copper, mahogany forests, shrimp and hydropowers as natural resources.

- Oil, natural gas, coal, solar and wind as energy sources.

UNITED NATIONS

- In June, 1945 Panamá was admited in the United Nations.

- 0,018 as payment status.

- This country contribute in the UN peacekeeping supporting the management and impremetationg of programs and proyects of beneficts to the country.Ricardo Martinelli

in the General Assembly of the UN

- The UN has cited this nation for human rights violations. It includes police abuses violence against women and right to health.

- Article about Panamá:

May, 5, 2014

Panamá elections declared Juan Carlos Varela, who is the vice president

He captured the 39 percent of the vote, with more than ¾ of the ballots counted.

CONFLICTS/ISSUES

- Four problems of this country could be: crime problems, environmental issues, unemployment, engineering problems.

- It hasn’t have any cultural issues.

- There are colombian refugees because of the problems.

- Old problems that had Panamá were: money, negligible signs of coca cultivation and official corruption.

BY ANGELA AND TERESA

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