Does Panama still have one government?

Total madness in mining standoff

It's day five in the blockade of the Panamerican highway by the Ngöbe people in protest against mining on their lands, and the Martinelli government is ready for ... More »

On Saturday 4 Feb 2012
In Bolivar's Telegraph, Politics
Tag Cable & Wireless comarca martinelli mining mulino ngöbe protest
With 3 Comments

Nobody wants to be on the losing team

Police moves away from Martinelli?

The Sala Quinta battle has, as expected, seamlessly evolved into yet another mining battle as the Ngöbe people are blocking roads in protest against the repeated attempts by ... More »

On Friday 3 Feb 2012
In featured, Politics
Tag @protegeryservir bocas jahiro polo martinelli mining ngöbe policia nacional protest
With 3 Comments

CD digbats call old lady "vieja de la verga"

Sausage Law replay

Remember the sausage law circus almost two years ago? Fighting in the Assembly, protests outside, Martinelli nowhere to be found, and then the whole project to allow mining ... More »

On Tuesday 31 Jan 2012
In Politics
Tag assembly legisladrones marcos gonzalez martinelli sala v
With No Comments Yet

Alma Cortés announces reelection; Panamanians get ready for dictatorship

Martinellistas prepare auto-coup

When il duce Martinelli goes on a foreign trip and meets with the members of his c̶r̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ political party C̶r̶i̶m̶i̶n̶a̶l̶e̶s̶ ̶D̶i̶p̶u̶t̶a̶d̶o̶s̶ Cambio Democratico first, you just know there's gonna ... More »

On Saturday 28 Jan 2012
In Bananamismo, featured, Politics
Tag Alma Cortes auto-coup auto-golpe censorship democracy dictatorship fujimori martinelli narco-dictadura sala v
With 4 Comments

What were they thinking anyway?

Panama loses in war with France

Remember how Panama declared war on France, after the wine slurpers had called Panama an example of a tax dodging haven? The Panamanians would teach the Gauls a ... More »

On Wednesday 14 Dec 2011
In Politics
Tag banking financial crime france narco offshore panama ratification sarko taxation transparency treaty
With 1 Comment

Martinelli hints at Noriega house arrest

The Devil’s Excrement comes home

Ricardo Martinelli, our immensely popular leader, told the media while in Costa Rica that Manuel Antonio Noriega could apply for house arrest as soon as he gets extradited ... More »

On Thursday 1 Dec 2011
In featured, Politics
Tag el toro extradition hector aleman house arrest martin martinelli noriega prd revenge
With 2 Comments

Third world PR tips & tricks

Martinelli’s cyber digbats

Our beloved heroic drunken president Ricky Martinelli is sometimes inexplicably under criticism in the media, for doing things wrong. This obviously bothers him and his people tremendously, so ... More »

On Thursday 13 Oct 2011
In Politics
Tag gobierno nacional martinelli media pr
With 1 Comment

Our next president?

Chello starts where Martinelli stops

UPDATED - Because of the drunken tweets of our beloved Excelentisimo, we were a kind of wondering what his political party, Cambio Democratico, really stands for, ideologically. Are ... More »

On Thursday 6 Oct 2011
In Politics
Tag cambio democratico chello galvez martinelli twitter
With 1 Comment

Vamos bien

Financial dildo cancelled

The Erection of Capitalism, also known as the Torre Financiera or Vallarino's dildo, has been cancelled because Martinelli needs to improve his image with the normal people, and ... More »

On Thursday 6 Oct 2011
In Politics
Tag alberto vallarino dildo image martinelli torre financiera
With 1 Comment

He'll just never leave

Fake rector sworn in

For a moment we were afraid that we had to go look for another place to buy our university diplomas, but THANK GOD our heroic fake-doctorate self appointed ... More »

On Friday 30 Sep 2011
In Corruption, featured, Politics
Tag 2014 election fraud gustavo garcia de paredes martinelli univerity of panama
With 4 Comments

Los groceros somos más

Budget approved by “4 gatos”

Now that the alliance between the pizzafistas and the panameñistas has been broken because of egos and stupidity, things in Panamanian politics are quickly descending further into the ... More »

On Thursday 29 Sep 2011
In Politics
Tag blandon Corruption gobierno nacional martinelli presupuesto thugs
With Comments Off

Circus Martinelli

Don’t drink and Tweet

Our beloved president Ricky Martinelli had a party yesterday because of Papademente's birthday, and he got drunk. And when he gets drunk he starts sending messages that he ... More »

On Thursday 29 Sep 2011
In featured, Politics
Tag callate obesa drunk martinelli panama sloshed twitter wasted
With 4 Comments

WikiLeaks: Vice-president calls Panama Canal expansion a “disaster”

El Pais reports today, quoting from the leaked diplomatic cables, that Vice-President Juan Carlos Varela called the Canal expansion project a "disaster" during a conversation with a delegations ... More »

On Friday 17 Dec 2010
In Politics
Tag aleman zubieta barbara stephenson cablegate canal expansion cusa disaster failure martinelli varela wikileaks
With 10 Comments

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