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Colon Free Zone protests turn into broad anti-Martinelli movement

By Okke Ornstein | October 24, 2012

What we're seeing is protest that goes beyond coercing the government into dropping its CFZ sales plans. It's no longer against one piece of misguided policy; it is against Martinelli himself, his accomplices, against the constant abuses, the broken promises, the violence, the unprecedented mega-corruption and the fact that the highest economic growth in Latin America has not done anything to close the gap between rich and poor.

Corruption

Police does its usual kid-killing routine in Colon riots over Martinelli land scheme

By Okke Ornstein | October 20, 2012

Panama's heroic national police kills 9 year old to shut up protests against Martinelli's land sales to finance corrupt schemes.

Politics

US State Department hooked on gramophone needles

By Okke Ornstein | March 2, 2010

Is it some sort of wacky hobby then, of the fine people of US State, to repeat themselves in voluminous reports every year and push policies that demonstrably have no effect in reducing the drug trade and money laundering? Is it, maybe, an addiction?

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