Recently repatriated former-dictator Manuel Noriega is not the only famous graduate of the School of the Americas. Founded in 1946 by the U.S. government in the Panama Canal Zone near Colon, the school trained over 60,000 military and security officers in the region. In 1984, it relocated to Fort Benning, Georgia under the terms of...
Archaeologists have unearthed the gold-bedecked burial sites of the Pre-Colombian elite in El Caño in the central Coclé province. Julia Mayo, a Panamanian archaeologist and research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and a team of specialists have discovered six large treasure-filled tombs and believe there could be as many as 20 more,...
Panama, Spain and the Arquitectura y Sociedad foundation signed an agreemeent to conserve and revitalize Casco Viejo. This announcement comes just as news of that the controversial third phase of the Cinta Costera is moving ahead with a marine viaduct not far from the old city. Spanish Ambassador Jose Silva said that the first...
In 2005, then U.S. Ambassador to Panama Linda Watt requested that the visa of Panamanian Supreme Court Justice, Winston Spadafora, be revoked because of corruption charges, reveals a wikileaked cable. The cable refers to a reliable source of the U.S. embassy who explained “that in virtually every case brought before the high court, Justices openly...
If the Panamanian government builds a road around or under the historic Casco Viejo neighborhood, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will pull it from its list of world heritage sites. The Casco Viejo, also sometimes known as San Felipe and Casco Antiguo, is set on approximately 108 acres and has...
