For more than 80 years, Panama had a prison on an island in the Pacific, a place with forced labor programs for inmates and where, even, an agricultural center was created. It is Coiba Island, the same one that today is considered a bastion of the marine corridor that extends from Costa Rica to Ecuador. An area of ​​great biodiversity, which has been declared a natural heritage of humanity by UNESCO.

Voice of America’s Oscar Sulbarán tells us more. | CREDIT: VOICE OF AMERICA – [Keep VOA logo on screen] Author: Oscar Sulbarán | Voice of America | Panama City