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Ciudad del Saber censors Bananama Republic

Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government." Lenny Bruce Panama's so-called "City of Knowledge" in the former Clayton military ... More »

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A white man running is an athlete, a black man running is a criminal…

So they got him. Rafael Eusebio Saenz Salinas, also known as "Ito", was captured by the police today in Las Cumbres, and transferred to police headquarters in a ... More »

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Legisladrones insist on Cuba style anti-protest law

In our biggest tax free car dealership, also known as the National Assembly, legislators of the government alliance insist that what Panama really needs is a law that ... More »

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H.A. Engineering INC. kills cab driver and calls it an “accident”

For a full day the media in Panama published each and every detail they could come up with about the cab driver who got killed by a slab ... More »

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Bananama Republic thanks you all for your support

Since we rebooted your Bananama Republic to give it a fresh start we've published 73 articles - all original, no stealing here from the news services - and ... More »

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Cocaine Cowboys

Talking about Panamanian real estate, we just found this great documentary online. Cocaine Cowboys. How the drugs transformed Miami into something that looks a lot like Panama today. ... More »

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Panama real estate comes crashing down with boom

We were already getting used to construction workers dying because they kept falling off these skyscrapers because the developers are too cheap to install proper safety measures, but ... More »

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How to privatize garbage and get rich in four easy steps

The mayor of Panama City, Bosco the Clown, is a true genius. The thieving heavyweight dances his way through everything from his epic Christmas party fail to garbage ... More »

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Stanford Panama deposited money in crooked Iceland bank

Stanford Bank Panama is being sold by the SEC, reports the Latin American Herald Tribune: The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that approximately $14.2 million has been secured ... More »

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Towards Total Corruption

Our beloved president Ricardo Martinelli is off to Colombia in search of entrepreneurs who want to launder money in Panama (euphemistically called "foreign investment" by government and business ... More »

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Teaching journalism, Panama style: Respect war criminals and fraud promoters

Believe it or not, but we just learned that at the Academia Interamericana de Panamá there is a teacher called Russ Stayanoff who relies for his journalism classes ... More »

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Free Trade Agreement might become a nightmare

Exporting goods to the US from countries that don't have a free trade agreement is actually easier and cheaper than within the framework of FTA's such as the ... More »

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