Omar Torrijos

So scribbled a grumpy Graham Greene, rum-guzzling amigo to Panama's de facto dictator Omar Torrijos, who despised the stabler, army-bereft, pro-American nation on his northern border. Costa Rica challenges this safe, even dull image by inviting its many travellers (2.9 million in 2016, the most of any ...

And they didn't. Okay, maybe later. The el gordo family had been successful over the generations, acquiring significant amounts of land which they held onto tenaciously through the recent regimes of Omar Torrijos and the genuinely creepy Manuel Noriega. Some of their land was almost pristine rainforest, ...

Omar Torrijos may have been involved in smuggling drugs into the United States. Shifting the debate toward mysterious, sensitive issues at the demand of Republican treaty critics, the Senate also was expected to review then the issue of U.S. electronic eavesdropping on Panamanian officials during treaty ...

... the Library of Congress and other presidential offices that hold documents related to that ancient work. The pact and other related documents were signed on September 7, 1977 in Washington D.C. by former General Omar Torrijos and former U.S. President, Jimmy Carter, a fact that marked a milestone in the Panamanian ...