Mr Fonseca had served as a minister in Panamanian former President Juan Carlos Varela's government but stepped aside in 2016. Mossack Fonseca was shut down in 2018.

The visit comes barely 18 months after Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela, in a surprise move, severed ties with Taiwan, China’s historic rival for global acceptance, and announced the ...

Carlos Muñiz Varela, a Cuban living in Puerto Rico who was murdered under suspicious circumstances on April 28, 1979 at the age of 25, and Santiago “Chagui” Mari Pesquera, the son of Juan ...

A church wounded by sin can paralyze, confuse and tire the hearts of Catholic clergy and laypeople, causing them to doubt their mission in the modern world, Pope Francis said.