Martinelli ramps up war on indians
FIVE children died as a result of inhaling teargas during excessive police repression in Bocas del Toro in July. That is one of the more gruesome conclusions of ...
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Panama, towards a hollow state
“Es mejor que ciudadanos honestos cumplan condenas injustas, a que hayan hombres corruptos administrando justicia, no voy a pagar ni un real a la delincuencia”
Ana Matilde Gomez, Attorney ...
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The perverted fantasies of Giselle Burillo
Our government is completely isolated locally and internationally, but some of its members still don't get it. Minister Giselle Burillo, for example, is quoted in El Panama America ...
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Panamax 2010 arms fair trains wacky coup scenario
The fun with the (former) military types here in Panama is that they never learn. So they have this Canal, and most experts have throughout history agreed that ...
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Panama ambassador defends international outcast Martinelli
President Ricardo Martinelli has lost most international support he had, to the extend that his only friends on the international scene are now other mobster figures like Silvio ...
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Tourists start boycotting Panama
We like tourism here at the Bananama Republic. It's one of the cleanest ways of development for a country - if done right. Much cleaner than open pit ...
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Protests in Spain against Martinelli
Panama is living through a national strike today which will last 24 hours. There are protests in the country as well as the capital going on; students closed ...
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CHAOS: Does Panama still have one government?
The number of contradictions, bizarre statements, frantic denials and then confirmations is growing at a speed that makes us wonder, here in the Bananama Republic newsroom, if Panama ...
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Martinelli overruled by his ministers, attempts to gain time
During the World Cup soccer final, president Martinelli made a statement to the press saying that the "sausage law" would not be repealed, that the unrest was all ...
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BLACK SATURDAY – Martinelli needs to go
In the ten years that yours truly has been reporting about Panamanian events, there has never been anything like what we've been witnessing today: Children arrested, babies killed, ...
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Terror in Bocas del Toro as government prepares massacre
It is impossible to get the exact numbers of deaths from Bocas after the clashes between protesters with the police in Changuinola, Bocas del Toro. Eyewitnesses talk about ...
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Police assassinates protesters, more journalists arrested, orders to capture labor leaders in Panama war zone
La Prensa reports one, but sources close to the events say four five protesters have been killed and tens wounded by the police in Bocas del Toro. The ...
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Bosco the Clown to be sacrificed in Satanic ritual involving an embassy
Martinelli's popularity is cratering, Panamanians don't believe his rosy economic predictions, murder rates are through the roof, everything is getting more expensive and the protests against Martinelli's mafia ...
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Panamanians don’t believe Martinelli’s economy hype
After a year Martinelli, endless hype and babble, the introduction of various wacky mega miracle schemes, imbecile laws, blah blah about "foreign direct investment", and bipolar presidential craziness, ...
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Martinelli’s approval rate crushed under string of scandals and screw-ups
Telemetro just reported that Martinelli's approval rate plummeted another 11% to 49%. But that number, dear reader, refers to the month of May, which is before Martinelli set ...
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