2023 in Panama
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{{Year in Panama|2023}}
The following lists events in the year 2023 in Panama.
{{See also|2023 in Central America}}
Incumbents
Events
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Panama
- 15 February – Gualaca bus crash: At least 39 illegal immigrants are killed in Gualaca District, Chiriquí Province, when their bus, intended to be driven to the United States, falls off a cliff.{{Cite news |last=Moreno |first=Elida |date=2023-02-15 |title=At least 39 migrants die in bus crash off Panama cliff |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/least-33-migrants-die-pamana-bus-crash-official-2023-02-15/ |access-date=2023-02-15}}
- 3 September – Panamanian professional footballer Gilberto Hernández is shot dead and seven others are wounded by gunmen in Colón.{{Cite news |date=2023-09-04 |title=Gilberto Hernández: Panama national team footballer killed by gunmen |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66706055 |access-date=2023-09-05}}
- 8 November - A 77-year-old man with Dual American-Panamanian citizenship shoots and kills two people protesting a mining contract in front of news cameras.{{Cite news |date=2023-11-08 |title=Protests against copper mine deal turn deadly in Panama. |language=en |work=CNN|url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/08/americas/demonstrators-killed-mining-protests-panama/index.html |access-date=2023-11-08}}
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- Scheduled October / November – Panama at the 2023 Pan American Games
Deaths
- 1 February – Lucy Quintero, folk singer (born 1948).{{cite web |url=https://www.telemetro.com/musica/entretenimiento/fallece-lucy-quintero-la-perla-negra-monagrillo-n5840309 |website=telemetro.com |title= Fallece Lucy Quintero, La Perla Negra de Monagrillo |date=2 February 2023 |language=es |access-date=8 February 2023}}
- 3 September – Gilberto Hernández, footballer (born 1997).{{cite web|url=https://www.prensa.com/deportes/fallece-en-medio-de-una-balacera-en-colon-el-jugador-del-cai-gilberto-hernandez/|title=Fallece en medio de una balacera en Colón el jugador del CAI Gilberto Hernández|date=3 September 2023|publisher=La Prensa}}
See also
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References
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