Scam O'Rama Muppets:
Don Winner a/k/a Donnie Wanker (left)
and Marc Boswell a/k/a Rex Freeman (right)
Oh, and in the background: All Clinton's
work, according to Freeman/Boswell

Time for some good old fashioned wild west fun. Remember Ian Calvert Bleasdale? No? Child sex rapist on the run. Turned up as sales director of mega noni swindle in Panama which Don Winner of course defended. Story here. Also wanted for fraud in Costa Rica and that's what did him in. A couple of his victims just a sort of nabbed him in Panama and handed him over to the police and he was swiftly thrown over the border into the Costa Rican slammer, where he belonged. The end? No. Well, for him, yes, but now we have a similar case. Scam artist on the lam. Buys residency despite criminal convictions. Trouble in Costa Rica where he continued to scam before moving to a welcoming Panama. Becomes Don Winner's drinking buddy and financial columnist. Well, not for long, sucker! Because there is an Arrest Warrant! Panama doesn't want to enforce its laws? No problemo! It's only a matter of time before his victims hunt him down and throw him in a van headed for Costa Rica. Yes we can! Bye, Rex! We would appreciate a tip though when it goes down, for the pics. Oh, and Don Winner? We think that one more case like this and he's toast too. You can't just run a full-fledged pimp-a-scam and expect there won't be repercussions. Bye, Don!

That's what the Costa Rican authorities want to know. They found a bundle of money there which they say belongs to the FARC. And now they want to know if between 2000 and 2003 any high-placed FARC hot shots were in Panama. Hello, Ticos! Yes, there were. We know that for a fact. What we do not believe is that they leave money lying around just like that. Maybe it was hidden inside a Magic Laptop?

It looks like a great idea to us, something that could work in the Dariën for example. Have local villages take care of your weed plantations in exchange for food. But in Costa Rica, such a project was frustrated by the police, reports AM Costa Rica:

One by one. That's how agents pulled up 800,000 marijuana plants under the burning jungle sun in Talamanca, said the minister of security Thursday.

The native Costa Rican people of the area were caring for the plants in exchange for food given by narcotraffickers, according to the Fuerza Pública. “Rice and beans for marijuana” was how one spokesman put it. Native peoples also received pistols for 40 pounds of chopped marijuana, among other items, said the security ministry.

Well, that ends that. And the villagers? Did anyone think of them in this great victory in the war on super-dangerous drugs?

Now that 800,000 of the plants are destroyed, it may be difficult for the people in the area to eat, admitted a spokesman.

Well done, drug warriors!