Panamas deputy security minister revealed that 2,647 members of the National Police have been removed from the force for misconduct over the past two years.
Panama announced the arrest of 80 members of a Colombian-led drug trafficking organization that moved cocaine from Central America to the United States via Panama's Caribbean coast.
Panama authorities confiscated more than 600 kilos of heroin, worth at least $70 million, from a car in a remote town on the Caribbean coast.
Almost eight tons of cocaine headed for Central America has been seized in two raids conducted with cooperation between authorities from Colombia, the United States, Honduras and Panama.
Panama's navy seized over three tons of liquid cocaine after intercepting a ship off the Atlantic coast. Authorities arrested one Colombian and one Spanish national.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) removed Costa Rica from its grey list of tax havens after signing its 12th international agreement to exchange tax information in…
While Panamanian officials are hailing the largest cocaine seizure of the year as a major victory, it's unlikely that improved interdiction rates will discourage traffickers from using Panama as a…
A Panamanian official said that drug traffickers operating in the Central American nation could be using submarines to transport merchandise and avoid detection by authorities.
Panama's efforts to stop maritime trafficking in its waters has forced traffickers to use land routes in Costa Rica, according to Costa Rican anti-drug authorities.
Forty-five Mexican police have been arrested over alleged ties to the Zetas cartel. The police are all from the town of Cadereyta in the state of Nuevo Leon,…
A series of WikiLeaks cables paints a grim picture of Panamas capacity to respond to the increasingly aggressive FARC rebels, who have found refuge in the swamps and jungles across…
Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Panama suspected that country's politicians of taking part in arms and drug trafficking, according to a cable released by WikiLeaks and quoted by…
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