Climate change forces indigenous islanders in Panama to relocate

 

Some 2,000 islanders in Guna Yala will become one of the first indigenous communities in Latin America to relocate because of climate change.

Islander Magdalena Martínez, who has campaigned for new housing on the mainland, tells the BBC how she feels about leaving the island she grew up on.

The Panama government estimates all islands of the Guna people could be under water by 2050, based on forecasts by an independent group of scientists, although others think the islands may not all be submerged until the end of the century.

Does offshore banking encourage corruption?

The Panama Papers have exposed how the world's rich and powerful hide their wealth.



It is a system that, although sometimes perfectly legal, has facilitated tax evasion, government corruption and criminal activity.

A system that gives the RICH and powerful a level of anonymity not afforded to other people.

The so-called Panama Papers have exposed a shadowy financial system that allows WEALTHY people to stash their assets abroad.

Now there are calls for greater transparency.

Panama: Yes, There's A Canal; For The Real Tourist It's Let's Play Hide The Cash

A storm is coming

By Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer

The interrogation room in which Iceland’s recent history was rewritten is sparse, furnished only with a table, some chairs, and a computer. A camera is fixed to the wall, and the frosted, double-glazed windows have completely blocked out the sound of the gale-force winds in Reykjavik’s Faxafloi Bay.

It was in this room that some of Iceland’s most powerful bankers, executives, and investors had to answer to special investigator Olaf Hauksson. A tall man with a heavy build, Haukkson has spent the past six years investigating the transactions that brought Iceland’s economy to its knees in October 2008.

It's ok because we, the great unwashed don't count or understand the need and motivation to hide vast wealth from the world's governments.  We, are the peasants living in a modern world believing we have a say in who governs us and life's outcomes. We don't as these documents prove.  Mass Delusion and we're all in.

Playing both sides

By Thomas Kistner, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer, and Mauritius Much

FIFA the bastion of openness and transparency 

• Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin
• Iceland’s PM faces snap election over revelations
• What you need to know about the Panama Papers