Martinelli’s cattle call
So what to do if the masters tell you to pay more attention to "civil society" instead of harassing them? Right, you organize a cattle call. Herd them ...
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Bosco the Clown takes another shot at Guinness Book of Records
After his epic fail of organizing the "biggest Christmas party in the world" and have it included in the Guinness Book of Records and then attempting to turn ...
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El País reports Panama’s Tourism Minister Salomón Shamah whitewashed Murcia campaign donations
Costa Rican newspaper El País runs another story today connecting the dots about president Martinelli's ties with money laundering and drug trafficking, while Panama's so-called "media" are idly ...
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Panama is open for business (4): Crazy Airport Schemes
Instead of focusing on long term sustainable development, Panama is the land of the miracle cure, the crazy schemes, the snake oil remedies that will either bring us ...
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Martinelli doesn’t convince in innocence plea
Panama's narco-president Ricardo Martinelli is joining the tin-pot crowd and has announced that he will file criminal charges against Costa Rica's El País, for an article published there ...
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Panamanian writers on obscure immigration watchlist
It's not just harassment and beating up people who might not agree with the policies of our beloved money laundering supermarket goon President Martinelli and his henchmen; writers ...
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Birds of a feather… Martinelli feels sorry for Noriega
President Martinelli said today on Telemetro that he feels sorry for Noriega, and that we should all know how to forgive and turn the page and blah blah. ...
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Harassment of activists and journalists full steam ahead
Our fearless mobster rulers have a new hobby: harassing journalists and activists.
Couple of days ago, a photographer of El Panama America was beaten up by fake-procurador Bonissi's security ...
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The real trash problem is that the government is trash
So they've been at it for months now, Bosco the Clown, Martinelli, Jimmy "los groceros somos más" Papadimitriu and so on, but simple organizing to get garbage in ...
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Martinelli, Varela and Papadimitriu grind their teeth as they are read the script by Obama administration
Last Thursday, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela was in Panama and talked with - or better said to - Martinelli for three hours. ...
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BOMBSHELL: Costa Rican paper implicates President Martinelli in massive money laundering
Daily El Pais in Costa Rica quotes a number of sources today implicating Panama's president Martinelli in massive laundering of drug money from Mexico through his Super99 supermarket ...
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It’s official: Panama sucks for mothers and children
We just love these indexes here in the Bananama Republic newsroom. The Quality of Life index, the Corruption Perception Index, the Human Development Index and so on - ...
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Silva Tree’s Patrick Visser sends the legal bullies
Mail today, from Michigan. Lawyer John Di Giacomo of Traverse Legal writes us and the legal department of GoDaddy, our hosting service, on behalf of Patrick Visser, who ...
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Martinelli launches all-out effort to recapture Noriega
In a move seen by many as an attempt to distract Panamanians from skyrocketing domestic murder rates and violence, President Martinelli announced today that he has ordered the ...
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Alberto Vallarino turns out to be a thief
Scandal! Completely and totally unexpected, it turns out that the Martinelli government is a bunch of corrupt thieves! We had Martinelli himself, paying a family enterprise for National ...
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