The United States is threatening to take over the Panama Canal at a time when Panama is struggling to address growing challenges…

“We were four cats,” recalled Aubrey Baxter with a laugh. It’s an expression that, in Panama, means a handful, and Baxter was…

Thousand-foot-long ships chug through the Panama Canal’s waters each day, over the submerged stumps of a forgotten forest and by the banks…

Damaris Sanchez is a soft-spoken environmentalist from the hills of Western Panama. She lives in an area called Cerro Punta in the…

Panama’s Supreme Court has ruled that the contract signed between the state and Minera Panamá to operate the Cobre Panamá mine is…

First published in Portuguese at Revista Movimento. Translation by Revista Movimento. The approval, in the last debate in the House of Deputies on…

Panama is seeing a wave of massive protests sparked by the renewal of permits for one of the largest copper mining projects in the…

In early July, the People’s Alliance for Life, a coalition of Panamanian workers, students, and indigenous peoples, blocked the Pan-American Highway, the…

Panama’s teachers returned to the classroom on Tuesday after a month-long strike that sparked the country’s largest mass demonstrations since the fall…