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Home Embassy NewsU.S. Citizen ServicesVisas to the U.S.U.S. Policy & IssuesResourcesIRCEspañol Embassy Highlights U.S. EMBASSY AND PARTNERS SAVE YOUNG PITCHER S ARM Michael Ibarra recovering at the hospital The U.S. Embassy in Panama arranged for an operation to save a promising young baseball pitcher’s left arm, long-atrophied after a prior accident several years earlier and subsequent botched treatment left it deformed and functionless. U.S. Ambassador to Panama William A. Eaton presided over a press conference April 3 that featured the Punta Pacifica/Johns Hopkins Medicine International Hospital in Panama, baseball NGO Omar Moreno Foundation, local doctors Luis Picard-Ami, Heraclio Barra, and Lolita Pinilla de Jimenez, and the boy’s parents to announce the success of the April 2 operation that, with follow-on therapy, will restore up to seventy percent of the atrophied arm’s use. News of the operation and press conference dominated Panamanian TV, radio, and print media. (more) Latest Headlines From the Embassy 2007 Human Rights Report During the press conference "In every region of the world, men and women are working peacefully, and often at great risk to themselves and their families, to secure human rights and fundamental freedoms, to follow their consciences and speak their minds without fear, to choose those who would govern them and to hold their leaders accountable and to achieve equal justice under the law." (more) Human Rights Report Briefing Panama Report by Secretary Rice "Beyond the Horizons 2008" in Panama Students during the closing ceremony Since February 11 2008, the U.S. Army South had a team of 14 engineers in Panama who were making repairs and improvements to facilities that the U.S. Army constructed in recent years at Bocas del Toro, Chiriqui, Comarca Ngobe Bugle, and Los Santos. They have been coordinating with the Ministry of Government and Justice, SINAPROC, the Minis...