Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa has set a new world record for the biggest wave ever surfed. The record-setting ride took place last November when Koxa was towed into wave measuring a massive 80 feet tall during an enormous swell at Praia de Norte in Nazaré, Portugal. The record-setting ride has been confirmed by the Guinness […]
Venezuela and Panama on Thursday agreed to restore their respective ambassadors and reestablish air links as they sought to patch up a bitter diplomatic row, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday. “We have agreed to return ambassadors to Panama and Venezuela … and resume air links from tomorrow,” Maduro told reporters after speaking by phone […]
A group of clipper yachts took off from Seattle on Sunday to head toward Panama. It’s leg seven of a race around the world. Getting to Panama should take the yachts about 26 days. After that, they’ll continue to New York City and eventually to the finish line in Liverpool, England. The 11 teams have […]
Nanette Witmer is an avid writer at International Living and covers a story about a couple who moved to David. Nita Sosebee and Bernie Gaider lived in Colorado Springs before moving to Panama in January 2017. Both worked over 20 years in Colorado as software developers. “We were interested in trying out an early retirement, or […]
Currency expert Steve Hanke — a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University — has long advocated dollarization as a way for countries like Argentina and Venezuela to dramatically reduce inflation almost immediately. My friend Joachim Bamrud writes for Latinvex about how Ecuador, El Salvador and Panama are dollarized economies and are the […]
Orlando Avendano writes for PanAm Post and discusses how socialism doomed Venezuela and will do the same in Nicaragua. In Venezuela, at least four processes of dialogue have taken place between the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro and the representatives of the Venezuelan official opposition in the last four years. All in vain. Unfruitful. Small victories […]
Panama is a tiny slip of land with a surprisingly giant place in the natural, commercial, and human history of the Western Hemisphere. Now, it hopes to enlarge its influence in film and TV, addressing its own complicated history with notable projects while spotlighting the best of a Spanish-language industry that reaches three continents. I […]
The first shipment of liquefied natural gas from Dominion Energy’s Cove Point LNG export terminal on the U.S. East Coast has completed its transit of the Expanded Panama Canal as it heads for Japan. The Dominion Cove Point terminal in Maryland is the second U.S. LNG export terminal to come online after Cheniere’s Sabine Pass […]
The North Shore charger talks about the wave that made the cover of SURFER Vol. 59 #3 The photo above of Nathan Florence backdooring a green-lit cavern landed on Pg.1 of SURFER magazine’s newest issue. Staff photographer Ryan “Chachi” Craig captured it while on a hopeful strike mission to Panama with Florence, Billy Kemper and […]
Dealt documentary (Amazon, other options) directed by Luke Korem. This absolutely blew my mind, and I don’t want to spoil it with description. Trust me and watch the short trailer above. Truly amazing. I can’t remember the last time I finished a documentary, only to want to immediately watch it again. I also can’t remember a […]