Panama mining concessions spare important areas
Look at the picture that your author took. See that? Those little sparks in that piece of rock? That's how gold is found. Little bits inside big pieces ...
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Russian Duma report implicates Monte Friesner in massive looting
The Working Group on Combating Corruption in Higher Echelons of Power of the Russian State Duma (parliament) issued a report last year in which Monte Friesner (Монте Морис ...
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Petaquilla spill result of fraud
The authorities as well as environmental group ANCON are doing tests in the rivers around the Petaquilla gold mine to determine if indeed cyanide has leaked from the ...
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The perverted fantasies of Giselle Burillo
Our government is completely isolated locally and internationally, but some of its members still don't get it. Minister Giselle Burillo, for example, is quoted in El Panama America ...
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Legislator José Blandón’s law firm protects scammer Monte Friesner
"As you can imagine, Panama’s national bank, through a politically connected law firm, in cahoots with an international money launderer and swindler facilitating a debit card scheme founded ...
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Martinelli further isolated, investment grade under threat
While the marches of the so-called "civil society" are getting smaller and smaller and the protests are deflating, Panama's fearless mafia-leader Ricardo Martinelli and his government are facing ...
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Hector Infante pulls off another $50 million heist
Avid readers of Bananama Republic know of course that Panama is an international financial center with many banks and finance houses built on money laundering and shady dealings. ...
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Panamax 2010 arms fair trains wacky coup scenario
The fun with the (former) military types here in Panama is that they never learn. So they have this Canal, and most experts have throughout history agreed that ...
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Palacios reappears, walks on water
We don't know about you, dear reader, but we have tremendously enjoyed the great Palacios show over the last days. He was missing. The police said "we know ...
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Panama closes down Bocas ferries, help tourism boycott
Who said that the government of our enlightened money laundering supermarket king, Ricardo Martinelli, doesn't listen to the people? Tourists called for a Panama/Bocas del Toro boycott and ...
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Gustavo Perez, what did you do with Valentín Palacios?
It is already over a month ago that banana plantation worker Valentín Palacios was taken away by the police and never heard of again. In more than a ...
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Panama ambassador defends international outcast Martinelli
President Ricardo Martinelli has lost most international support he had, to the extend that his only friends on the international scene are now other mobster figures like Silvio ...
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Ex-general dresses up like gay marriage limo driver
There used to be this joke, during the dark days of the dictatorship in Panama, something to the effect that from now on human intelligence was no longer ...
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Gomez conviction another nail in Martinelli’s coffin
The conviction of Ana Matilde Gomez, attorney general of Panama and prosecuted by Martinelli's yes-men because she did what she was hired for and tapped the phone of ...
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Did “Wild Bill” kill Monte Friesner’s poodle?
Canadian fraud artist Monte Friesner filed the most bizarre criminal defamation complaint against your author in the history of Bananama Republic. It alleges a conspiracy between yours truly ...
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