We have done what we could here at Bananama Republic, but our efforts to improve the "Weekly News with Sandra Snyder" radio broad- and podcast through constructive criticism have been in vain. We tried but failed miserably. So, today there's no other way left open to us than to declare full war against this evil radio terrorism. Nothing but an unconditional surrender will do.

Why, you ask? Let us explain you why:

First of all, because she looks like a China-made pirated copy of Maggie Thatcher. Just look at the picture; that weaselly smile, these liver spotted arms, that superior conservative expression on her otherwise clean-shaven face. Her handbag can't have been far away when this pic was taken. The only difference is the voice; Thatcher had this deep roaring sound that scared away any opposition she'd encounter while Sandra Snyder - let's just say that if you could turn crackled paint into audio the result would be what Snyder reads on the air every Sunday night.

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Monday morning: Time for the News with Sandra Snyder. But we discovered something strange this time. She recounts how she drove all the way to Chiriqui and saw only healthy cows and prosperous low income housing freshly painted. Didn't she notice how in Santiago they're building the equivalent of Punta Paitilla? And how David is BOOMING? And how Versace opened a shop in Veraguas? No, she didn't see any of that because, as she explains, she had something trickling down from her interior. And while we don't normally encourage playing with tropical hardwood toys while driving, it makes for some rather interesting radio. Listen for yourself! Oh, and Sandra: Next time, leave the car at home. The new trend is walking barefeet. You get to enjoy much more trickling and it makes it soooo much more romantic....

Sigh.... And the rest of the story isn't even current.

This is some sort of new project. Sunday Night News with Sandra Snyder, brought to you by the Panama Broadcasting Corporation. Man, are we bored. Boooooored! She and her co-host give new meaning to reading the phone book aloud. The thing starts with an advertisement for a funeral service and subsequently they struggle forward through a morass of words they don't know how to pronounce. We think it contains secret code language for Republicans Abroad sleeper agents, because no normal person listens to this. We quit after 10 minutes and ran for the liquor store. Headline news: Sandra Sandoval has a baby - yes the Sandra Sandoval whom Snyder describes in her book as a "salsa singer". 'Nuff said.