He added: “We don’t have an army.” In 1903, Panama was a restive department of Colombia, with many Panamanians advocating openly for independence from a central government on the other side ...

Video from the government showed the open boat upside down on the rocky coast ... Crossing the Darien Gap, a jungle-covered land area between Colombia and Panama, used to take a week or more ...

At least five passages near Panama’s border with Colombia have been shut using barbed ... instructed to stop and detain people traveling by boat with “irregular migrants” and to hand them ...

The U.S. then began negotiating a Panama treaty with Colombia. The U.S Department of ... the Atlantic side to the level of the lake. The boats would cross the lake, then descend by another set ...

Gatún Lake boat tours depart mainly from Gamboa Marina ... but a US-supported revolt led to the separation of Panama and Colombia and the formation of the Republic of Panama in 1903.