Panama has declared an emergency in its main banana-producing region, after shops were looted and buildings vandalised in ongoing protests over a pension reform. The government says constitutional rights will be suspended for the next five days in the north-western Bocas del Toro province. The measure restricts freedom of movement and allows the police to...
With all that’s been going on in the world as far as trade wars, tariffs, and China, China, China, there hasn’t been much in the news about Panama. That doesn’t mean nothing’s been happening, though. In fact, Panama is turning into one more giant burr under Xi’s Mongolian camel blanket and Trump has to be...
After weeks of Donald Trump’s threats to “take back” the Panama Canal, the White House has ordered the military to come up with an assortment of plans to make the president’s imperial fantasy a reality. According to NBC News, which first reported on the directive, the plans range from increasing military partnership with Panama to...