Zero tolerance in Panama for drug smuggling as Reuters reports. Panamanian authorities arrested 64 people and seized four tonnes of cocaine following a two-year investigation into a drug trafficking ring, the government said on Wednesday. Over the past 22 months, police have seized a total of $2.5 million in cash, 49 vehicles and one tonne […]
A new report by Smithsonian archaeologists and colleagues in the International Journal of Paleopathology identifies a bone tumor in the upper right arm of an adolescent who was buried in about 1300 AD in a trash heap at a site in western Panama called Cerro Brujo or Witch Hill. The reason for what appears to […]
Our readers share tales of their ramblings around the world. Who: Cecily Nabors (author) of Silver Spring, Md., and her friend Julie Small of Olney, Md. Where, when, why: In mid-November, Julie and I flew to Panama for a week-long trip led by the Audubon Naturalist Society (ANS), with a local leader, Carlos Bethancourt. We’ve […]
The Pan-American Highway is less a road than a 30,000-mile-long spiderweb. Its threads run through 14 countries, from the United States to Argentina. But there’s a 100-mile chunk missing through the border of Panama and Colombia; here, the mountainous jungle terrain is too rugged to be paved. There is ongoing consideration to build one—connecting Yaviza, […]
Ok, this Saturday and we are pulling into Cartagena, our second trip to Colombia after Medellin in December. This time we are cruising, having left the Port of Colon on the Caribbean side of Panama. I am seeing images of an old, but cool movie Romancing the Stone in my head just thinking about it. […]
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and […]
Bijan Hosseini and Joel Williams report of Noriega’s life and death at CNN. Manuel Noriega, the former Panamanian dictator and convicted drug trafficker who was once one of Central America’s most notorious military strongmen, has died, according to a tweet by Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela on his verified Twitter account. Noriega, 83, had undergone surgery […]
When our ship, The City of Brooklyn, emerged from the Panama Canal into the Pacific Ocean, one of our passengers went up to the bridge and borrowed the captain’s binoculars. This man was a retired doctor in the medical corps of the US army and he now wanted to focus on the statue of […]
Yesterday, the President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, signed the legal agreement between the State and Del Monte that will allow the transnational company to invest more than 100 million dollars in the reactivation of banana areas in the western provinces of Chiriqui and Bocas del Toro. After signing the document with Banapiña Panama […]
Here is a country that is on my bucket list. Sweden regularly ranks among the world’s happiest countries, and its new partnership with Airbnb hints at a key reason why: it’s beautiful, and that natural beauty is accessible to all. Really, to all, especially now that Sweden has put the whole country up on Airbnb, […]