Inmet: Minera Panama unaffected by repeal of law 8
We said here yesterday that when Martinelli repealed the controversial mining code, also know as Law 8, this move, although celebrated as a victory by activists and the ...
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Martinelli: Foreigners, shut up!
PANAMA'S proverbial xenophobia has reached a new low with the expulsion from the country of journalists and human rights activists Paco Gomez Nadal and Pilar Chato, both from ...
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Ngöbes win mining battle, environmentalists lose
Hot off the wires: Papadimitriu and leaders of the Ngöbe Buglé have reached an agreement. The Panamericana will be re-opened. The government will abstain from persecuting those who ...
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Martinelli strikes again
As we write this, Spanish journalist and human rights activist Paco Gomez Nadal is about to be expelled from the country on the 9PM Iberia flight. There are ...
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Sectarianism, egos and money divide anti-mining protests
Today La Prensa revealed that the fake Ngöbe chief Rogelio Moreno is indeed being paid by the government. He receives $600 per month as "cacique regional", the newspaper ...
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Reports: Panama’s Martinelli, a dangerous drunk
ALREADY a year ago, your Bananama newsroom started receiving the first reports about president Martinelli's somewhat strange behavior. Drinking binges with Papadimitriu. Martinelli and clique spotted, sloshed, at ...
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Mulino, the dishonorable
Is it too much to expect that a minister who - together with his colleagues - constantly worries about attacks on his honor and seeks to protect it ...
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Martinelli pulls rank, country and government disintegrate
THE government of mobster-president Ricardo Martinelli is falling apart. Yesterday, we learned that our narco-in-chief was chastising his ministers for publicly disagreeing and criticizing policy. He added that ...
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Martinelli government piles up media disasters
IF you want to see our beloved government and its supporters make total fools of themselves and their country, all you need to do is switch on the ...
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Is Panama ready for the WikiLeaks cables?
It won't have escaped anyone that there is a global storm raging as a result of the latest WikiLeaks release of diplomatic cables from and to US embassies ...
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Panama sells out US tax dodgers
We never thought Panama was such a great place to hide money from the tax man. Too corrupt, too scammy, crooked banks with lousy service, no rule of ...
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Panama Canal to disappear in sinkhole
REMEMBER how we reported that the Geological Institute of the University of Panama – in charge of monitoring volcanic and seismic activity – isn’t updating its data, and ...
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Panama is open for business (7): Vallarino steals a dildo
We all know that the Trump Ocean Club is a cheap clone of the Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai just like the Ocean Reef project is a sort ...
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Remember, remember, the fifth of November
The report of the official Martinelli-appointed government commission that investigated the massacre in Bocas del Toro is now available, here. Of course Martinelli and his ministers denied any ...
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Nationalism without a country
We're living through the annual season of flag waving these days. Independence from Spain, independence from Colombia, National Flag day, Grito de los Santos - a hollow state ...
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