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Key areas like Punta Barco, Coronado, Punta Pacifica, El Valle, Boquete and other such places where the members of our government and their friends live or own their vacation homes are unaffected. So there's nothing to worry about, really.
The Russian State Duma (parliament) issued a report last year in which Monte Friesner (Монте Морис Фризнер), Lawrence B. Heath (Лоренс Хиз) and their company Carlyle-Coutts Capital Corporation S.A. are accused of laundering massive amounts of stolen funds from the former Soviet Union. In Panama, the political and legal protection of Friesner's scams continues.
According to its own environmental impact study, an emergency tank should already have been there in January, before they started operations. Why Petaquilla was allowed to start operating without having complied with that condition in an area that gets vast amounts of rain year-round is anyone's guess.
The cheap attempt to use Palacios's suspicious reappearance as some sort of "evidence" that the government did nothing wrong and is being falsely accused is a dumb and transparent ploy to distract from the indisputable fact that Martinelli's gang of thugs did kill at least 4 people in Bocas, and likely more. Including small children.
While the pressure on Panama to clean up its legal system and corruption is mounting, a prominent legislator's law firm is in bed with a convicted serial fraud artist from Canada.
Standard & Poor's warns that Panama could lose its coveted investment grade if Martinelli doesn't change his ways after human rights groups condemn again the police brutality in Bocas.
After first successfully seizing the money of a Canadian retiree on behalf of HSBC, lawyer Hector Infante has now accomplished the legal theft of $50 million of Panama's poor children.
This year, inspired by events in Bocas, they have created a new doom scenario to practice: an indigenous coup d'etat. This would of course be a clear danger to the Canal, because everybody knows that mafiosi are to be fully trusted running the waterway and indigenous banana planters are not.
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 nutting". Then everybody got angry and demanded an investigation and, voilá! There was Palacios!
Friday at about 4 PM, heavily armed police escorted officials from the Maritime Authority and closed down the two ferry services that connect Isla Colón with Almirante on the mainland, Bananama Republic has learned.