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The Institutional Protection Service (Spanish: Servicio de Protección Institucional) is a service branch of the Panamanian Public Forces. The Institutional Protection Service was organized in March 1990 to assume the functions previously assigned to the former presidential guard. Based in Panama City, attached to the Ministry of the Presidency.
The Portobelo and San Lorenzo fortifications are situated approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) from each other on Panama's Atlantic coast. Portobelo's military structures provided a security cover on the Caribbean part of the Panama harbour whereas the fortifications at San Lorenzo protected the Chagres River at its mouth. [2]
El Fuerte de Samaipata, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bolivia; El Fuerte, Sinaloa, a city of Sinaloa, Mexico; El Fuerte, a character in the Street Fighter video game series; Fuerte may also refer to: "bolívar fuerte", the official name of the Venezuelan bolívar; Fuerte River, a river in Sinaloa, Mexico; Fuerte, a variety of avocado
Ft. Sherman, Panama in 1986. Fort Sherman is a former United States Army base in Panama, located on Toro Point at the Caribbean (northern) end of the Panama Canal, on the western bank of the Canal directly opposite Colón (which is on the eastern bank).
The urban population, many living below the poverty level, was greatly affected by the 1989 intervention. As pointed out in 1995 by a UN Technical Assistance Mission to Panama, the fighting displaced 20,000 people. The most heavily affected district was the El Chorrillo area of Panama City, where several blocks of apartments were completely ...
The trail connected the Pacific port of Panama City to the mouth of the Chagres, from whence Peru's plunder would sail to Spain's storehouses in the leading Atlantic ports of the isthmus: Nombre de Dios, at first; and, later, Portobelo. (The dry-season, overland route—the Camino Real—connected Panama City with those ports directly.) [3]
Amador came to Panama in 1855 settling in Colón and started working on the Panama Railroad as a doctor. After a year, he also took a job as the postmaster. [4] After moving to Santiago de Veraguas, Amador began a export business "Amador Hermanos", with his brother, Juan De Dios Amador Guerrero, and continued his work as a doctor and in governmental posts.
The system is in charge of the MiBus company, [2] initially managed by the Colombian-Panamanian consortium Transporte Masivo de Panamá until 2015, when the Panamanian government bought and assumed the operations of the company (remaining under the umbrella of the Panama Metro) and hired the American company First Transit, a subsidiary of ...