“This river is my whole life,” Benite ... A sign outside of a home in Limón de Chagres, Panama. The sign says in Spanish, "For a green Panama, in respect of nature. No to the reservoirs." ...

LIMÓN DE CHAGRES, Panama — Digna Benite stands on the banks of the calm Río Indio and recalls playing in the water while her father fished. "This river is my whole life," Benite, 60, says through a ...

It surveys me with malintent. I’m chuntering down the Gatun River in Panama’s Chagres National Park at walking pace aboard a cigar-shaped boat. The water’s so shallow that at one point my ...

(Tomas Ayuso for NPR) LIMÓN DE CHAGRES, Panama — Digna Benite stands on the banks of the calm Río Indio and recalls playing in the water while her father fished. “This river is my whole life,” Benite, ...

A Hong Kong-based conglomerate has agreed to sell its controlling stake in a subsidiary that operates ports near the Panama ...

The Panama Canal is an extraordinary feat of engineering ... and pushed authorities to pursue a controversial plan to dam a river in an effort to secure its survival — an act that would flood ...