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-financ… ...

President Ernesto Perez Balladares has admitted that his 1994 campaign received $51,000 from a Colombian businessman later jailed on drug charges.

As tensions over the Panama Canal ratcheted up last month, former President Ernesto Pérez Balladares sat in his office and contemplated the worst-case scenario: an American invasion. | Ben ...

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 ...

It did so at the request of another former president, Ernesto Pérez Balladares (1994-99), the plaintiff in a 2012 defamation suit against the paper.

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.

Former Panama President Ernesto Pérez Balladares voiced concerns about the potential for significant casualties and international condemnation if U.S. aggression escalates.

Ernesto Perez Balladares, candidate of the political party that served as a front for Noriega's dictatorship throughout the 1980s, took about a third of the votes in a field of seven contenders ...

PANAMA. The Attorney General, Ana Matilde Gomez has ordered an investigation into the allegations made by the daily La Prensa that the former President of the Republic, Ernesto Pérez Balladares ...

President-elect Ernesto Perez Balladares says he would allow up to 10,000 Haitians to stay in temporary havens in Panama after he takes office Sept. 1.

Panama City, Jul 11 (EFE). — Former President Ernesto Perez Balladares announced Monday his candidacy for the post of secretarygeneral of Panama’s main opposition Revolutionary Democratic ...