Panama agreed to remove from its Ship Registry some 60 Iranian vessels to avoid being placed on a US Treasury blacklist. In 2016, some 60 Iranian vessels from Iran were flagged in Panama’s Ship Registry following the lifting of the economic restrictions imposed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury […]

Scott McMurren writes for the Anchorage Daily News of his experience on the Canal. There was an air of anticipation on our ship, the Safari Voyager, as we approached the Panama Canal. For the past week, we had sailed leisurely down the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica and Panama. As we approached the canal, it […]

This is a great article written by Liz Larroquette in her blog  Recently, I was at a party in the States and found myself making small talk with a wide variety of interesting people. Waiters moved seamlessly with small trays of appetizers and bottles of wine ready to pour, complete with small cloths draped perfectly […]

David Unsworth writes in the PanAm Post about the current situation and how this may be a world changing event.  Enough already with Cuban, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan dictators.!! Economic and diplomatic pressure is turning up the heat on Maduro and his band of criminals, as the vast majority of the world’s democracies are lining up to […]

Thanks and a hat tip to Geoffrey McRae at Gateway to South America for this wonderful article on one of my favorite places in the world.  Time to get back down there for sure!! The Route of the Parks of Patagonia is a brand new trail to add to the bucket list of adventurous hikers […]

Price per gallon of regular gasoline: Costa Rica $3.64, Nicaragua $3.31, Honduras $3.17, El Salvador $2.78, Guatemala $2.73 and Panama $2.56. The upward trend of the reference prices for the present fortnight, follows the agreement to reduce production by 1.2 million barrels per day by the member countries and non-members of the Organization of Petroleum […]

Pope Francis said an open-air Mass before a huge crowd on Sunday to wrap up a jamboree of Catholic youth, the last big event before he returns to Rome to prepare for a historic trip to the Arabian Peninsula in one week. Organizers said about 700,000 people attended the closing Mass of World Youth Day, […]

The latest on Pope Francis’ visit to Panama and World Youth Day (all times local): 6:35 p.m. Pope Francis has left Panama, concluding his visit to the Central American nation for World Youth Day 2019. President Juan Carlos Varela and first lady Lorena Castillo were on hand to bid the pontiff farewell at Tocumen International […]

While I am not sure about war in Europe, it is a possibility and one thing I am sure about is Argentina which is very affordable and has a lot of classy places like Buenos Aires where housing is a bargain now.  Panama also gets a nod from Doug as the most interesting country in […]

In December 2018, it was reported that the international price of a pound of coffee fell to $1, which is equivalent to a 12% drop compared to the same month in 2017. Data from the International Coffee Organization (ICO) detail that in the last two months of last year also reported a decline in the […]