Bolivar's Telegraph
Cuban refugees held in Darién
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A group of Cuban refugees, including three children, is being held by the Panamanian authorities on a beach in the Darién and are refused even shelter and food.
Corruption
Police hunts down murder witnesses
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As indigenous leaders demand investigations into murder and rape, the police is hunting down witnesses to its crimes and arresting them.
Bananamismo
Martinelli: Foreigners, shut up!
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Your Bananama Republic - headed by a foreign journalist as well - doesn't think Martinelli has the stature to forbid us anything. Or, it takes a lot more than some xenophobic third world despot to stop us from protesting whenever the hell we want.
Politics
Martinelli ramps up war on indians
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Five children were killed in Bocas as a result of irresponsible government and police abuse, an official report says. Yet, Martinelli is getting ready for another war on the indigenous people; this time in Ngöbe-Buglé over mining rights.
Politics
Panama ambassador defends international outcast Martinelli
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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".
Bananamismo
The day after the week before
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Street battle may be over in Bocas del Toro and daily life may slowly resume in the town of Changuinola, but we're only now getting a first glimpse at the size of the stinking mess president Martinelli and his government have caused.
Bananamismo
CPJ demands release of Panamanian journalist
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The Committee to Protect Journalists demands that Panamanian journalist Carlos Núñez López be released immediately by the Panamanian authorities, saying that "the verdict should be voided, Núñez should be released, and Panama’s legislature must eliminate all criminal penalties for defamation.”
Politics
Harassment of activists and journalists full steam ahead
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A photographer beaten up, journalists threatened and rounding up environmental activists - the new rules of the game under Ricardo Mafianelli.
Politics
Live blogging CIDH hearing about justice in Panama
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Bananama Republic experiments with live blogging the hearing by the OAS human rights commission about justice in Panama.
Politics
Obama wants Panama in Colombian war
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Frank Mora claims that Panama can not ignore Colombia's civil war and should become part of it to secure the Canal. What he really wants is human rights violations committed with American money.