"Cobre Panamá" — Panama interest

## What this measures

How often people in Panama search Google for "Cobre Panamá", relative to all searches, weekly, on a 0–100 scale where 100 is the peak week in the five-year window.

## Why it matters

Cobre Panamá is the defining recent case of a community and a country withdrawing a mine's licence to operate. Panamanian attention to it tracks every step toward, or away from, reopening.

## How to read it

Higher means more attention. Compare peaks with the news that caused them; sustained rises matter more than single spikes.

## What it does not say

Search interest measures attention, not support or opposition, and it is relative, not a count of searches.

## Source

Google Trends (Panama), fetched through SerpAPI. Weekly values from 0 to 100, relative to the highest week in the five-year window for the search "Cobre Panamá". Google re-normalises the window on every fetch, so earlier weeks can shift slightly.