Corruption
Pronto Cash operates as a bank
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Using a license that is only good for pawn shops, Pronto Cash offers a myriad of banking services including fund transfers, mortgages, payday loans and medical loans/insurance.
Corruption
US embassy leaks coup plotters
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The US embassy is leaking intelligence information about Gustavo Perez's activities in setting up special forces with former Noriega cronies that could commit a coup.
Corruption
Coup threat in Panama
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With a police force that increasingly behaves as if it's above the law and sub-director Eduardo Serracin threatening a coup d'etat, Panama has not been this unstable since 1989.
Corruption
The “callcenters” now have a name
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La telaraña de La Prensa: Rafael Perez G. is the second former La Prensa employee revealed to do dirty work and run smear campaigns for Ricardo Martinelli.
Corruption
Presidency ordered phone blackout
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The cellphone shutdown in Ngöbe protest areas was not the result of "sabotage" or any such fantasy, but ordered by the Presidency through a former La Prensa employee.
Corruption
Police hunts down murder witnesses
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As indigenous leaders demand investigations into murder and rape, the police is hunting down witnesses to its crimes and arresting them.
Bolivar's Telegraph
Martinelli’s rage attacks, threats
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President Martinelli may be invisible, but our sources tell us that behind the scenes he is yelling and screaming and having rage attacks as if there's no tomorrow, demanding that his hydroelectric plants be realized.
Corruption
Why the Ngöbe had to die
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Only under Martinelli has Panama had to live through no less than three deadly crises to protect the shady business interests of the government's associates.
Corruption
Canadian journalist refused entry
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While our c̶a̶p̶o̶ ̶d̶i̶ ̶m̶a̶f̶i̶a̶ great president Martinelli was babbling in Davos about how Panama has real press freedom, the immigration authorities at Tocumen International M̶o̶n̶e̶y̶ ̶L̶a̶u̶n̶d̶e̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶C̶e̶n̶t̶e̶r̶ Airport stopped Canadian journalist Rosie Simms from entering the country.
Corruption
Drug Government Becomes Stronger
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In the wake of the President's tax attack on Eisenmann, Dr. Zuñiga argues that it is Martinelli whose fortune should be audited and investigated for involvement in the drug trade.