Panama President-elect Jose Raul Mulino on Thursday pulled a business leader and an economist into his ranks, the first cabinet selections in what Molino has promised will be a business-friendly administration.

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Child migration through Panama’s dangerous Darien Gap is up 40% so far this year, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.N. children’s agency.

Panama is on the verge of a dramatic change to its immigration policy that could reverberate from the dense Darien jungle to the U.S. border.