Juan Zamorano

Luis Sanchez, center, sits with other Venezuelan migrants on a boat leaving Gardi Sugdub on Panama’s Caribbean coast, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after giving up hopes of reaching the U.S. while in southern Mexico amid President Trump’s crackdown on migration. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

They crossed the Darien Gap to reach the US. Now, boat-by-boat, migrants are returning

February 23, 2025 at 4:47 p.m.

Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants – mainly from the Andean nations of Venezuela and Colombia – have given up after President Donald Trump’s crackdown on asylum, and are returning to the...

FILE – Panama’s Minister of Public Security Frank Alexis Abrego, speaks to reporters after watching people board a repatriation flight bound for Colombia at Albrook Airport in Panama City, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Nearly 300 deportees from US held in Panama hotel as officials try to return them to their countries

February 19, 2025 at 8:12 a.m.

Panama is detaining in a hotel nearly 300 people from various countries deported under U.S. President Donald Trump, not allowing them to leave while waiting for international authorities to organize...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, Frank Alexis Abrego, Panama’s Minister of Public Security, center, and Panama’s Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha, watch as people board a repatriation flight bound for Colombia at Albrook Airport in Panama City, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Marco Rubio says El Salvador has offered to accept deportees from US of any nationality

February 3, 2025 at 9:58 p.m.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was visiting El Salvador on Monday to press a friendly government to do more to meet Trump administration demands for a major crackdown on...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio deplanes at the international airport in Panama Pacifico, Panama, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Panama must reduce Chinese influence around the canal or face possible US action

February 2, 2025 at 2:47 p.m.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Sunday that the Central American ally must immediately reduce Chinese influence over the Panama Canal area or...

FILE – A cargo ship traverses the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal in Colon, Panama, Sept. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Panama, familiar with US intervention, bristles at Donald Trump’s comments on canal

January 21, 2025 at 2:36 p.m.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence Monday that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control fed nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the critical trade...

Panama celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Panama Canal handover as Trump wants to take it back

December 31, 2024 at 2:54 p.m.

Panama on Tuesday celebrated the 25th anniversary of the U.S. handover of the Panama Canal, which president-elect Donald Trump has threatened to take back.

La selección mexicana durante un entreminamiento en el Centro de Alto Rendimiento el 17 de septiembre de 2019 en Ciudad de México.

El Tri debuta en la Liga de Naciones sin apuros y algo de polémica

October 9, 2019 at 7:13 p.m.

Con un equipo alterno y sin ningún apuro. Pero con algo de polémica. Así llega México a sus dos primeros partidos de la Liga de Naciones de la CONCACAF, un...

Panamanian Soccer Federation President Manuel Arias, left, stands with new coach Americo Gallego, during Gallego's media presentation, in Panama City, Aug. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Eric Batista)

Panamá y El Salvador, ávidos en sumar en Liga de Naciones

September 3, 2019 at 8:18 p.m.

Américo Gallego se está tomando muy en serio su debut con Panamá en la nueva Liga de Naciones de la CONCACAF, que arranca esta semana. Y sobradas razones tiene. El...

El ecuatoriano Claudio Villanueva compite en la marcha de 50 kilómetros durante los Juegos Panamericanos de Lima, el domingo 11 de agosto de 2019.

Ecuador arrasa en 50 kms marcha en ambas ramas

August 11, 2019 at 5:23 p.m.

Ecuador sencillamente arrasó el domingo en la marcha de los 50 kilómetros de los Juegos Panamericanos. Al triunfo de Claudio Villanueva en los 50 kilómetros se sumó después la victoria...

Sandra Arenas of Colombia crosses the finish line to win the gold medal in the women's 20k walk final at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Sandra Arenas da a Colombia primer oro en marcha panamericana

August 4, 2019 at 3:56 p.m.

Sandra Arenas se había preparado física y psicológicamente para este momento. La colombiana estaba convencida que podía conseguir una medalla inédita en el atletismo para su país en Lima. Tirando...

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