s seizing of a ship this week only involves obsolete weaponry that Havana had sent to be repaired in North Korea. North Korea has a long history of aggressively buying, marketing and selling arms, especially in developing countries in the Middle East, Africa and south-east Asia. Much of that business was in sales of short- and medium-range missiles, but the market for full missile systems was thought...
Panama has called in the UN after the Chong Chon Gang was caught carrying arms from Cuba ...
Panama has seized a North Korean cargo ship that was carrying arms from Cuba concealed under a shipment of brown sugar ...
s captain attempted suicide after it was stopped near the Panama Canal and undeclared weapons were found on board The Panama Canal was at the centre of a claimed arms trafficking attempt on Tuesday when authorities said they had detained a North Korean flagged ship on its approach to the waterway from Cuba and found weapons on board. The Panamanian president, Ricardo Martinelli, said the ship was carrying...
s Sandinista Front controls the national legislature with 63 out of 92 politicians. Opposition politicians voted against the proposal, saying the initiative was being rushed. The Chinese company, HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment, is working with the Nicaraguan government on the canal project, which was announced last week . Experts say it may take 11 years to finish, cost $40bn and require...
s growing influence on global trade and weaken US dominance over a key shipping route Nicaragua has awarded a Chinese company a 100-year concession to build an alternative to the Panama Canal, in a step that looks set to have profound geopolitical ramifications. The president of the country's national assembly, Rene Nuñez, announced the $40bn (£26bn) project, which will reinforce Beijing's growing...
s jungle-covered Darien province that borders Colombia and is the only part of the Americas without a stretch of the Pan-American highway. Darien is now getting a reputation as a quagmire for the UN's climate change amelioration scheme Redd (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation). The national co-ordinating body of Panama's seven indigenous groups, known as Coonapip , this year...
Campaign group Avaaz visited an AquaBounty farm in the lush western highlands of Panama at 1,500m above sea level in the town of Boquete ...
s commercial prospects in America. If approved, the salmon could be the first of some 30 other species of GM fish under development, including tilapia and trout. Researchers are also working to bring GM cows, chickens and pigs to market. In Panama City, government officials are upbeat about AquaBounty's prospects of getting its fish to market. "From what we know it is very close to being approved....
s psychedelic science museum sits at the mouth of the canal. One of the museum's exhibit co-ordinators, Darien Montañez, explains its 'devices of wonder...