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So which idiot in the Ministry of the Presidency invited Rush Limbaugh to Panama?
Check this out: Some douchebag in the Ministry of the Presidency sent American racist, hate-monger and egomaniac nutcase Rush Limbaugh a letter inviting him to come to Panama ...
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Co-author of Uruguay dictatorship crimes in XIV Premio Nacional de Periodismo jury
Today La Estrella ran a full page ad on page 12A presenting the jury for the 14th National Journalism Awards. And to our big surprise, on top of ...
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Silva Tree’s Patrick Visser joins list of hustlers trying to sue us
Patrick Visser, the head of Silva Tree Panama, just wrote us an email (in Dutch, translation to follow) announcing that his lawyers will start legal procedures to have ...
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No more commercial ads on Bananama Republic
Advertising as a means to support journalism is over. Dead. It worked when printing presses were expensive and those with something to advertise had little choice but to ...
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One flew over the Friesner nest – Facts behind the fiction
Yeah, it's a bit difficult to keep track of all the shit flying around Monte Friesner's head these days. We know. But hold on: The facts of the ...
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Panama is open for business (3): Silva Tree reforestation scam
And we have another great example of how just about any foreign swindler can set up shop in Panama: The Christian Science Monitor reports today how a company ...
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Schoolkids get milk with worms – for free!
Everybody knows that worms, and insects in general, are rich in protein, so we can only applaud the latest initiative by our Opus Dei lunatic minister of education ...
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Bernal: I felt safer under Noriega
Dr. Miguel Antonio Bernal, the university professor and human rights activist who was a candidate for mayor of Panama City, said yesterday on TVN (video) that he fears ...
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Shrink charged only $25k to declare Bosco the Clown mentally sane
What a bunch of cheapskates is our government: Psychiatrist Arturo Viejo charged only $25,000 to declare our beloved mayor Bosco the Clown mentally fit and now they don't ...
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Right wingnut website suggests Panama closes Canal to France
Panama's leading scam promotion website published an article today stolen from La Critica, about Panamanian efforts to get stricken off the French blacklist of tax havens. This affects ...
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Dictator Martinelli will sign Cuba law
Because our National University is headed by a corrupt dimwit with a fake doctorate, our lawyers can't read or write comprehensive Spanish. And thus our judges and our ...
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Candidate magistrates can’t even read or write
Just what we always suspected. There's a vacancy at the Second Superior Court, and part of the procedure to select the new magistrate is a Spanish test, reading ...
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Police beats up and teargases protesters to facilitate Grupo Cuerva dam
Over the last years the various governments have sold a vast amount of concessions for hydroelectric dams all over the country, which, if all of these are indeed ...
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