Panamanian President Ernesto Perez Balladares turned 50 last week but he didn’t spend his birthday pondering his mortality. He was too busy saving his political life. Facing a campaign-financ… ...

Ernesto Perez Balladares took office as president of Panama Thursday, becoming the country’s first freely elected leader in nearly three decades. Perez Balladares, a 48-year-old banker whose ...

A park is about to open where Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega once had his military headquarters. Officials say the site should be a wonderful place for kids and families, a fitting land… ...

As tensions over the Panama Canal ratcheted up last month, former President Ernesto Pérez Balladares sat in his office and contemplated the worst-case scenario: an American invasion. | Ben ...

Panamanians call their president Toro, Spanish for bull. And by his own description, Ernesto Perez Balladares is a proud man. That's what made his recent admission all the more remarkable.

Copies of La Prensa at the paper's printing press in Panama City, May 6, 2019. ... Ernesto Pérez Balladares (1994-99), the plaintiff in a 2012 defamation suit against the paper.

Former Panama President Ernesto Pérez Balladares voiced concerns about the potential for significant casualties and international condemnation if U.S. aggression escalates.

A man who U.S. troops captured and interrogated during the 1989 invasion that ousted Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega declared victory Sunday in Panama's freest elections in decades. Ernesto Perez ...

President-elect Ernesto Perez Balladares says he would allow up to 10,000 Haitians to stay in temporary havens in Panama after he takes office Sept. 1. Skip to content All Sections ...

President Ernesto Perez Balladares claimed Saturday that he was “tricked” into taking campaign contributions from a company linked to the world’s largest drug syndicate. Perez Balladares ...

PANAMA CITY — Former president Ernesto Perez Balladares was put under house arrest Thursday while authorities investigate accusations that he laundered money. Perez, who was in office from 1994 ...