Panamanian President Ernesto Perez Balladares turned 50 last week but he didn’t spend his birthday pondering his mortality. He was too busy saving his political life. Facing a campaign-financing ...

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PANAMA. The Attorney General, Ana Matilde Gomez has ordered an investigation into the allegations made by the daily La Prensa that the ... PANAMA. The Attorney General, Ana Matilde Gomez has ordered ...

On Friday, a judge in Panama granted a request by former President Ernesto Pérez Balladares to partially freeze the assets of Corporación La Prensa, S.A. (Corprensa) as part of a civil lawsuit he ...

Ernesto Perez Balladares took office as president of Panama Thursday, becoming the country’s first freely elected leader in nearly three decades. Perez Balladares, a 48-year-old banker whose politics ...

Panamanians call their president Toro, Spanish for bull. And by his own description, Ernesto Perez Balladares is a proud man. That's what made his recent admission all the more remarkable. "This is ...

PANAMA CITYPANAMA CITY — Former president Ernesto Perez Balladares was put under house arrest Thursday while authorities investigate accusations that he laundered money. Perez, who was in office from ...

PANAMA CITY — Marco Rubio’s weekend visit to Panama is set to offer clues to a pressing question: whether the next four years of American policy will more closely resemble an imperial conquest or a ...

A man who U.S. troops captured and interrogated during the 1989 invasion that ousted Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega declared victory Sunday in Panama's freest elections in decades. Ernesto Perez ...

WASHINGTON — Panama’s president-elect, a stalwart in the political party that Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega controlled until U.S. troops ousted him in 1989, is suddenly the darling of official ...

A park is about to open where Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega once had his military headquarters. Officials say the site should be a wonderful place for kids and families, a fitting ...

Under the terms of the 1977 Panama Canal Treaties, the United States is scheduled to withdraw all its military forces from Panama two years from now, but the U.S. wisely intends to remain engaged on ...