Country Archive
Celebrity Getaway (But We Were Here First)
Date: 01/12/2007Yes, number 39 was on Contadora Island with 23 family members to usher in 2007. I was there, too--also with family, although my entourage was much smaller--and I saw Jimmy and Rosalyn several times as they strolled about the island.
Read OnThis Gift Will Never Be Returned--Guaranteed
Date: 12/24/2006Thom wasn’t much of a golfer. The guitar was more his thing. You rarely saw him without it. Walking toward me in an airport lounge, a hotel lobby, poolside, seafront, in 100 bars in a dozen cities…
Read OnEliminating the Barriers to $$$$ Growth: U.S./Panama Free Trade Agreement
Date: 12/20/2006U.S. trade representatives and Panama’s Minister of Trade and Industry announced yesterday – December 19 – that negotiations had concluded on the comprehensive FTA.
Read OnA Visit to a Third-World Hospital
Date: 12/15/2006I didn’t want to receive medical care in Panama--after all, this is Latin America. But my friend Edwin assured me that going to the hospital was no big deal.
Read OnWho Would Want to Live in a Former U.S. Military Area?
Date: 11/29/2006Embassy Club will be a sophisticated residential development designed to provide a luxurious, amenity-filled country lifestyle within Panama City itself.
Read OnThe Americas: Forever Changed in 1880
Date: 11/05/2006Balboa had the idea first. Why go all the way around, he asked himself upon discovering the Pacific Ocean. Why not cut through?
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New Panama
Date: 10/09/2006In the 1970s I visited Panama City often as a Member of the U.S. Congress. In Sept. 2000 I returned to Panama for the first time in 20 years, this time as a private U.S. citizen on a business trip. I was amazed at the tremendous change I encountered.
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Splendor and squalor…boredom and bliss-the highs and lows of Panama
Date: 10/01/2006
Author:
Steenie Harvey
Editor's note: We asked Steenie to take a detour. This month, we suggested to Steenie, rather than another Euro-jaunt? why not head west to the hub of the Americas? We'd like a reality check, we told our correspondent, who'd never traveled in Central America beyond Mexico before. See what you, an experienced Euro-rover, think of this country called Panama, about which we wax so poetic all the time. Warts and all, we encouraged Steenie. Tell it like you see it.
And she has. Read on for her uncensored dispatch.