For days, they say they were locked inside a hotel in Panama, surrounded by tight security with limited contact with the outside world.

In a room at the luxury Decápolis Hotel in Panama City, two girls hold a piece of paper to the window with a written message. "Please help us," it reads.The hotel offers its clients rooms with sea views,

Panamanian authorities say they recaptured a woman who had escaped confinement from a Panama hotel where she and nearly 300 deportees from the United States were being held as they awaited repatriatio