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	<title>Bananama Republic &#187; Corruption</title>
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		<title>Friesner case goes nowhere</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2012/01/31/friesner-case-goes-nowhere/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2012/01/31/friesner-case-goes-nowhere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scams & Frauds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clyde jenkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[court]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[don winner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[libel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libel tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money laundering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monte friesner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panama guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panama sailing school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pronto cash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russian prostitutes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tatiana nazarova]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to claims of victory by Friesner and his publicist, court sends criminal libel case back to low level prosecutor as file contains no basis for a trial.]]></description>
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		<title>¿Qué SOPA?</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2012/01/20/que-sopa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2012/01/20/que-sopa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivar's Telegraph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anonymous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anon_pty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[María del Pilar Hurtado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[megaupload]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pipa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sopa]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bananamarepublic.com/?p=2599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Disgraced Colombian corrupt intelligence slut Maria Pilar Hurtado yesterday joined the first international cyberwar against internet censorship from her Panamanian hideout - siding with the censors, of course. ]]></description>
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		<title>Canal expansion way behind schedule</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/12/02/canal-expansion-way-behind-schedule/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/12/02/canal-expansion-way-behind-schedule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boston big dig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget overruns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cablegate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[don winner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expansion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[referendum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wikileaks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don Winner breathlessly reports what anyone with half a brain has already known for five years at least: The Canal expansion project is a disaster. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Protest in Bocas!</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/12/01/protest-in-bocas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/12/01/protest-in-bocas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[almirante]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bocas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[changuinola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chiriqui grande]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[etesa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road blocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tamburelli]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Your Bananama Republic is forced to report from Changuinola, of all places, because our government doesn't pay its bills!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Martinelli prosecuted in Italy?</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/11/23/martinelli-prosecuted-in-italy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/11/23/martinelli-prosecuted-in-italy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[berlusconi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bribery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finnmeccanica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[italian citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martinelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[off to the slammer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[papadimitriu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raul mulino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valter Lavitola]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bananamarepublic.com/?p=2395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Italian Finnmeccanica scandal rapidly expanding, the fact that Panama's president Martinelli is an Italian citizen as well may hold unpleasant consequences - for him. Take him away!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Corruption at La Prensa</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/11/11/corruption-at-la-prensa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/11/11/corruption-at-la-prensa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananamismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carolina Ángel Idroba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fernando berguido]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[la prensa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oligarchy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bananamarepublic.com/?p=2368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[La Prensa director sees docility rewarded with offer to join the Supreme Court, while the Oligarch Daily fires journo for joining Marcha de las Putas. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Papadimitriu in hot water</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/11/11/papadimitriu-in-hot-water/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/11/11/papadimitriu-in-hot-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign corruption act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land swindles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martinelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nepotism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panama canal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[papadimitriu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Friction between Martinelli and Papadimitriu because of the latter's US citizenship, which may have unpleasant consequences for both. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Budget approved by &#8220;4 gatos&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/09/29/budget-approved-by-4-gatos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/09/29/budget-approved-by-4-gatos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blandon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gobierno nacional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martinelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presupuesto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thugs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Martinellistas approved the budget for the next year without there being a quorum to even have a vote, because the legislators are all out in the streets stealing and pillaging and getting drunk except for Blandón who is making a show of how terribly upstanding and honest he is. ]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Fifer&#8217;s embezzlement scheme</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/03/29/petaquillaleaks-richard-fifers-embezzlement-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/03/29/petaquillaleaks-richard-fifers-embezzlement-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embezzlement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petaquilla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PTQ]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[richard fifer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part two of a series based on leaked documents from the Petaquilla goldmine. How Richard Fifer took a loan, and then tried to run with the money. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>WikiLeaks: How Assange gave Martinelli exclusive access to Panama cables</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/03/17/wikileaks-how-assange-gave-martinelli-exclusive-access-to-panama-cables/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/03/17/wikileaks-how-assange-gave-martinelli-exclusive-access-to-panama-cables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananamismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epasa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[julian assange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martinelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WikiLeaks flawed media policy results in a deal with EPASA that de facto gives president Martinelli exclusive access to the Panama diplomatic cables. On day two, El Panama America already screws up, replacing the AUC with the FARC in a headline.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>WikiLeaks: How Martinelli shakes down foreign businesses</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/03/16/wikileaks-how-martinelli-shakes-down-foreign-businesses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/03/16/wikileaks-how-martinelli-shakes-down-foreign-businesses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cablegate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment grade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manzanillo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martinelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shakedown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stephenson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only eight weeks into the Martinelli administration, the US ambassador already warned that Martinelli's shaking down corporations could harm Panama's investment climate. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reports: Panama&#8217;s Martinelli, a dangerous drunk</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/01/27/reports-panamas-martinelli-a-dangerous-drunk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/01/27/reports-panamas-martinelli-a-dangerous-drunk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananamismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drunk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martinelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mauro zuñiga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money laundering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[papadimitriu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drinking binges, ignoring state affairs, corruption, and his shady business deals - accusations and reports coming from everywhere. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is Panama ready for the WikiLeaks cables?</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/12/03/is-panama-ready-for-the-wikileaks-cables/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/12/03/is-panama-ready-for-the-wikileaks-cables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananamismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ana matilde gomez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canal expansion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david murcia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martinelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noriega]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spadafora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torrijos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us embassy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wikileaks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bananamarepublic.com/?p=1818</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Canal expansion, Spadafora losing his visa, two elections, David Murcia, Traad's arrest and Gustavo Perez' controversial appointment are just some of the issues included in the timeframe covered by the WikiLeaks cables.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beat up nature-lovers in Boquete!</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/09/21/beat-up-nature-lovers-in-boquete/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/09/21/beat-up-nature-lovers-in-boquete/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beat up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boquete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bribery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carmencita tedman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corregidora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[osvaldo cerracin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[walkiria castillo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since our visionary Martinelli rammed this "sausage law" through the assembly, our heroic national police has become increasingly creative cooking up new schemes for fun and profit. They've now introduced a new attraction to Boquete: Beat up environmentalists!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Russian Duma report implicates Monte Friesner in massive looting</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/08/28/russian-duma-report-implicates-monte-friesner-in-massive-looting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/08/28/russian-duma-report-implicates-monte-friesner-in-massive-looting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlyle Coutts CApital Corporation S.A.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[don winner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financiera Pronto Cash S.A.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[herbert young]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jose blandon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawrence Heath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[looting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money laundering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monte friesner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robber barons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Mafia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serial fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Societé Core Diplomatique Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swiss Hannover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tatiana nazarova]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uzbekistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yeltsin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Лоренс Хиз]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Монте Морис Фризнер]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Russian State Duma (parliament) issued a report last year in which Monte Friesner (Монте Морис Фризнер), Lawrence B. Heath (Лоренс Хиз) and their company Carlyle-Coutts Capital Corporation S.A. are accused of laundering massive amounts of stolen funds from the former Soviet Union. In Panama, the political and legal protection of Friesner's scams continues. ]]></description>
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		<title>Legislator José Blandón&#8217;s law firm protects scammer Monte Friesner</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/08/20/legislator-jose-blandons-law-firm-protects-scammer-monte-friesner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/08/20/legislator-jose-blandons-law-firm-protects-scammer-monte-friesner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[herbert young]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[jose blandon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rita Moreno Pretto de Young]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bananamarepublic.com/?p=1456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While the pressure on Panama to clean up its legal system and corruption is mounting, a prominent legislator's law firm is in bed with a convicted serial fraud artist from Canada. ]]></description>
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		<title>Panama ambassador defends international outcast Martinelli</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/08/12/panama-ambassador-defends-international-outcast-martinelli/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/08/12/panama-ambassador-defends-international-outcast-martinelli/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[berlusconi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jaime alemán]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alemán's defense of Martinelli is right out of the Goebbels propaganda textbook, along the lines of "Hitler built highways and the trains left on time".]]></description>
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		<title>Gomez conviction another nail in Martinelli&#8217;s coffin</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/08/11/gomez-conviction-another-nail-in-martinellis-coffin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/08/11/gomez-conviction-another-nail-in-martinellis-coffin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ana matilde gomez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonissi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cato institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martinelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Ceville]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conviction of Ana Matilde Gomez, attorney general of Panama and prosecuted by Martinelli's yes-men because she tapped the phone of a victim (at the victim's request) of extortion by a corrupt prosecutor,is yet another act of political self-immolation by Martinelli and his clique of mobsters.
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		<title>US government doesn&#8217;t trust Panama with espionage equipment</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/08/05/us-government-doesnt-trust-panama-with-espionage-equipment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/08/05/us-government-doesnt-trust-panama-with-espionage-equipment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananamismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[almengor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[espionage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[political espionage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ramon martinelli]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Panama government is using spying equipment for political espionage and to stay informed about legal cases against (affiliated) drug traffickers. ]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Ceville ordered illegal wiretaps himself</title>
		<link>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/08/05/oscar-ceville-ordered-illegal-wiretaps-himself/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/08/05/oscar-ceville-ordered-illegal-wiretaps-himself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ana matilde gomez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guiseppe bonissi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martinelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Ceville]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oscar Ceville, in charge of the prosecution of Ana Matilde Gomez, illegally ordered phones to be tapped and computers to be broken into, his former security chief has stated. ]]></description>
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