Little Panama’s Big Ambitions

Panama for its canal: a central piece in the global trade puzzle. Now Panama’s government is making a play to boost democracy in its central American neighborhood, via a new Alliance for Development in Democracy. The country’s foreign minister Erika Mouynes also takes us behind the scenes of her effort to solve the problems caused by an explosive rise in people smuggling through her territory, and explains how Panama wants to use its canal leverage to force the shipping industry to go green.