Late dictator's son wins Panama presidential race

Martin Torrijos, the son of a former dictator, won Panama’s first presidential elections since the handover of the Panama Canal and withdrawal of US troops in December 1999, electoral authorities said.

Ex-president Guillermo Endara, his main rival, conceded defeat to Torrijos, whose father was the late dictator General Omar Torrijos who ruled Panama from 1968 until his death in 1981.