Background: With US backing, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903 and promptly signed a treaty with the US allowing for the construction of a canal and US sovereignty over a strip of land on either side of the structure (the Panama Canal Zone). The Panama Canal was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914. On 7 September 1977, an agreement was signed for the complete transfer of the Canal from the US to Panama by the end of 1999. Certain portions of the Zone and increasing responsibility over the Canal were turned over in the intervening years. With US help, dictator Manuel NORIEGA was deposed in 1989. The entire Panama Canal, the area supporting the Canal, and remaining US military bases were turned over to Panama by or on 31 December 1999.
May 8th 2008Central America Caribbean » Panama » Bocas Del Toro » Isla Colon Hola!
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Inmiddels ben ik weer helemaal hersteld van de dengue en dus ook weer hard aan het werk. Had natuurlijk heel wat werk in te halen, maar ook dat is inmiddels h ... 30 photos[full story]
May 8th 2008Central America Caribbean » Panama » Panama City » Casco Viejo Thomas was one of our first tenants in Casa Padrós, at the back of the ex music Conservatorio building, in Plaza Herrera. Originally from Holland, Thomas has travelled all around and spent quite some ... [full story]
May 1st 2008Central America Caribbean » Panama » Boquete The early morning bus from Ciuded Neily was crowded and it was already hot when we were dropped at the Costa Rican side at around 8am. The whole process was rather chaotic and getting papers dealt wit ... 15 photos[full story]
May 6th 2008Central America Caribbean » Panama » Panama City » Casco Viejo Today, at La Prensa there was a very short article with huge positive impact: Caterpillar Signed Contract with Panama.
In less than a paragraph, it mentions that this heavyweight company will move ... [full story]
April 10th 2008Central America Caribbean » Panama » Panama Canal
As three willing and able assistants, we finished our field season with a bang. We captured and studied 23 bats (the record from past years was about 14 bats) and finished all the data entry and a ... 18 photos[full story]
May 4th 2008Central America Caribbean » Panama » Boquete
I’ve been spending the last 6 days now in Boquete, Pamana. Boquete is a small town, with gringo influence, in the mountains of Panama. There is the main street, with some restaurants, a few ... 11 photos[full story]
May 3rd 2008Central America Caribbean » Panama » Bocas Del Toro » Isla Colon basically imagine the perfect ad: crystal blue water, deserted islands full of palm trees and coconuts, white sand, swim with the dolphins and go snorkeling over a coral reef; now imagine the craziest ... 31 photos[full story]
May 3rd 2008Central America Caribbean » Panama » Panama City » Casco Viejo These graffitti pictures were done also by Cisco and Above. I didnīt realize they went into the Santa Familia building, which we are turning into a huge nursery for our urban agriculture project in Ca ... 5 photos[full story]
April 30th 2008Central America Caribbean » Panama » Panama City » Casco Viejo Panama is a good place. They are on the U.S. dollar so you don't have to deal with changing figures in your head when buying things like mangos. You hand them a quarter and they give you a big ... [full story]
April 29th 2008Central America Caribbean » Panama » Archipielago de San Blas So like we said, there is no road between Colombia and Panama. Also the flights are outrageously expensive. We decided to make our way across the Caribbean to Panama at a more leisurely pace--about ... 29 photos[full story]
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