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 ...

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-financing ...

Unlike Colombian President Ernesto Samper, whose campaign received $6 million from the Cali cartel and whose U.S. visa was pulled last month, Perez Balladares knew nothing of any tainted donations ...

On the ground here, members of the country’s small political elite have been bracing for either: As tensions over the Panama Canal ratcheted up last month, Panama’s former president, Ernesto ...

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.

It did so at the request of another former president, Ernesto Pérez Balladares (1994-99), the plaintiff in a 2012 defamation suit against the paper. The order marked an unprecedented assault on ...

Ernesto Perez Balladares, candidate of the political party that served as a front for Noriega's dictatorship throughout the 1980s, took about a third of the votes in a field of seven contenders ...

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 ...

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

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. The Clinton administration thought it had a ...

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, Jul 11 (EFE). — Former President Ernesto Perez Balladares announced Monday his candidacy for the post of secretarygeneral of Panama’s main opposition Revolutionary Democratic ...