Secretly filmed video shows that there is no car factory, there are no replica cars being built and Daniel Seppings is still certifiably bonkers.
Corruption
The numerology of Salomón Shamah
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The Colombian arms trafficker who made it tourism minister in Panama spent a million bucks on a defunct website and can't figure out where it ranks in the search engines.
Corruption
First spaghetti boat already kaput
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Finmeccanica bribe boat breaks down and there's no money for new engines.
Bolivar's Telegraph
Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks and the whining about press freedom in Ecuador
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While so-called journalism organizations are whining about Ecuador law that ends oligarch news monopolies, their work is being done by WikiLeaks: Keeping a journalistic source safe.
Scams & Frauds
Full Cyber Jacket – Or how attempts to disappear us from the web failed
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News from the cyber war front: A concerted attempt by a group of criminals in Panama to have Bananama Republic disappeared from the web and Google search results has failed, and actually backfired. UPDATED
Tech
Top Gear supercar fraud headed by Australian scam priest
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The Top Gear/Super Replica swindle turns out to be headed by Daniel John Seppings a/k/a "Tony Sinclair", a religious wingnut with a checkered past. UPDATED!
Scams & Frauds
Panama supercar fraud banks on Top Gear brand
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Bananama Republic sets out to purchase a fake Bentley staff car, a replica made by a fake Panamanian outfit with fake workshops and fake directors. (UPDATED)
Scams & Frauds
Fraud artist with many names, Homer W. Forster, changes name again
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For many of our readers this may be a bit too long ago to remember, but once upon a time, around 2003, out of the Tom McMurrain scandal and his San Cristobal noni scam came the next adventure, our investigation into fugitive fraud artist Homer W. Forster.
Corruption
Barro Blanco petition almost at target signatures
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Online petition to stop construction of Barro Blanco dam has almost its desired 28,000 signatures.
Tech
Panama real estate comes crashing down with boom
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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 the people behind Rivage Tower have come up with a new variant on the theme: Launch large pieces of metal on cars!
Politics
Live blogging CIDH hearing about justice in Panama
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Bananama Republic experiments with live blogging the hearing by the OAS human rights commission about justice in Panama.