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How El Nino is choking the Panama Canal

The Panama Canal will restrict the number of vessels transiting the crucial waterway from Friday for the second time ever due to drought caused...

Ship Pays Record Amount to Cross Panama Canal Amid Drought Restrictions

A ship paid a record $5.3 million to cross the Panama Canal sooner, just days before a reduction in vessel traffic takes effect due...

Panama and El Salvador Declare Alerts as El Niño Intensifies

Panama and El Salvador declared states of alert on Tuesday over the El Niño climate phenomenon, which is expected to reach record levels and...

Panama Canal Cuts Ship Traffic as El Niño Drought Worsens

The Panama Canal will allow fewer ships to pass through the waterway beginning in September as a drought linked to El Niño reduces the...

The Panama Canal Opened 112 Years Ago Today

Twelve years of digging, an estimated 27,500 deaths and roughly $375 million ended quietly on the morning of August 15, 1914, when a single...

Is Panama the New Costa Rica? A 2026 Expat & Real Estate Investor Comparison

For decades, Costa Rica was the undisputed poster child of Central American expat life. However, a quiet reshuffling of priorities is underway, and a...

Panama Named the World’s Best Country for Expats for a Third Straight Year

Panama has been ranked the best country in the world for people living abroad for the third consecutive year, according to the Expat Insider...

Panama Bill Would Require Influencers to Disclose Paid Posts

Panama’s National Assembly is considering a bill that would require social media influencers and content creators to clearly identify when their posts are paid...

Panama to Build Maximum-Security Prison to Isolate Gang Leaders

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino announced plans to build a new maximum-security prison for gang leaders, placing Panama more firmly inside a regional shift...

Panama moves 29 high risk inmates to Coiba prompting UNESCO warning

Panama’s Defensoría del Pueblo stated that reopening a penitentiary facility on Coiba Island could compromise the area’s status as a UNESCO World Heritage site....

Panama to Adopt Bukele-Style Prison Measures After La Joyita Escape

Panama will adopt the kind of "hardline" prison reforms of its Latin American neighbors to address failures of its penal system following a mass...

Panama World Cup Travel Brings Busier Days to Airport

Tocumen International Airport is preparing for one of its busiest travel stretches of the year as the 2026 World Cup sends a wave of...

Panama Canal Water Project Faces Opposition March in Colón

Campesino communities from the Río Indio basin will march through Colón this morning in their latest protest against a reservoir the Panama Canal Authority...

Panama Prison Riot Leaves Two Dead as Over 80 Inmates Recaptured

A riot broke out at the La Joyita penitentiary in Pacora on the evening of June 1 when authorities attempted to transfer or redistribute...
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Costa Rica Expects Major Cruise Tourism Jump in Puntarenas

Costa Rica expects around 150,000 cruise passengers to arrive in Puntarenas during the 2026–2027 season, a sharp increase that could bring more business to...

Costa Rica Free Zones Lose Jobs for First Time in Seven Years

Employment in Costa Rica’s free-zone regime fell year over year in July for the first time in seven years, ending a long stretch of...

Argentine Hope Etcheverry Advances to US Open Second Week

Tomás Martín Etcheverry carried Argentina’s flag into the second week of the US Open on Friday, defeating countryman Mariano Navone 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 in...

Costa Rica Route 1 Closing Overnight at Río Barranca

Route 1 will be shut at the Río Barranca bridge from 8 p.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Sunday while crews pull three RECOPE fuel...