Torrijos' good friend Mireya Moscoso seems to be in a bit of trouble these days.

Wow! For the first time in years, La Prensa publishes a story about corruption at presidential levels. Okay, it's the former president, corruption queen Mireya Moscoso, but it's a start after almost half a decade of deafening silence from the 12 de Octubre.

What has she done this time? Remember that house she stole, in Punta Mala, to have orgies with other Pizzafistas? She's secretly and of course illegally building stuff, the latest being a breakwater to protect that yacht she bought. All with stolen money and durodolares. And now La Prensa found out about the breakwater and the Maritime Authority is investigating. Of course nothing will be done. Moscoso should have been thrown in jail immediately after leaving office, but since we now have a government that is even more corrupt than hers that of course never happened.

Will La Prensa become a serious newspaper again? Don't hold your breath. Their agenda these days is to have Balbina elected because that's what Eisenmann and the advertisers and the Mottas want, and this just serves as a reminder to the public what they'll get should they get it in their heads to vote for the opposition. That's all. Monica Palm has always been a whore anyway.

Panama has its own Hillary. Popular in the polls, but loathed in her own party. The talented sure-shot Balbina Herrera will try to take the presidency of the PRD at the congress March 9th. And then try to become the presidential nominee. But the perredistas know that she carries too much baggage - dignity battalions, scandals, the uncontrolled real estate swindles in this country...

So while campaigning in Chiriqui at the mini congresses the PRD is having, she declared that "all PRD delegates will go united to the PRD congress March 9, because it is part of the path towards the 2009 elections and we need a strong and winning party". Ah, yes. That's why she was yelling and screaming at El Toro the other day. United we stand.

Totally unexpected news from within the PRD that has caught us by surprise and off guard. They're having internal elections. A bit like what's going on in the US, but here they keep everything under the hood. Why? Well, because nobody needs to stick his nose into how these things are done in the Democratic Revolutionary Party.

Or, in other words, allegations of vote buying are flying back and forth. Balabina may rank high in national polls, but she hasn't won any of the mini-congresses the PRD is organizing all over the country. A candidate who came to Chiriqui with a 30 vote advance left having lost by 27 votes.

And now the vice-president of this political pawn shop, Luis Navas, is making public statements about it! How totally un-PRDish! Must be Chavez paying him. There's also talk about a government police patrol boat flying a PRD flag in Kuna Yala. Chavez again.