He'll just never leave

Fake rector sworn in

For a moment we were afraid that we had to go look for another place to buy our university diplomas, but THANK GOD our heroic fake-doctorate self appointed ... More »

On Friday 30 Sep 2011
In Corruption, featured, Politics
Tag 2014 election fraud gustavo garcia de paredes martinelli univerity of panama
With 4 Comments

Los groceros somos más

Budget approved by “4 gatos”

Now that the alliance between the pizzafistas and the panameñistas has been broken because of egos and stupidity, things in Panamanian politics are quickly descending further into the ... More »

On Thursday 29 Sep 2011
In Politics
Tag blandon Corruption gobierno nacional martinelli presupuesto thugs
With Comments Off

Circus Martinelli

Don’t drink and Tweet

Our beloved president Ricky Martinelli had a party yesterday because of Papademente's birthday, and he got drunk. And when he gets drunk he starts sending messages that he ... More »

On Thursday 29 Sep 2011
In featured, Politics
Tag callate obesa drunk martinelli panama sloshed twitter wasted
With 4 Comments

Lo mejor del boxeo

Blandón destroys Jumbo Man

José Isabel Blandón, legislator and shady lawyer, is always in the middle of very important things. During the dark days of the military coup in Honduras, he traveled ... More »

On Thursday 22 Sep 2011
In Food
Tag jose blandon jumbo ferias jumbo man martinelli socialism
With 1 Comment

WikiLeaks

Colombian attack in Panama

When the Colombian army bombed a FARC camp in Ecuador, this led to a diplomatic crisis between those two countries with Venezuela added in the mix. In Panama, ... More »

On Monday 11 Apr 2011
In Bananamismo
Tag attack barbara stephenson bombs cablegate colombian army farc martinelli panama wikileaks
With 4 Comments

Shooting yourself in foot in 10 easy steps

Blow-Up: The PAMAGO Conspiracy

THE party lasted into the wee hours of the next morning, with plenty of wine, whiskey, tequila and rum. Finally they could unwind, relax, relieve some of the tension, now ... More »

On Tuesday 29 Mar 2011
In Corruption
Tag almengor anamatilde gomez antinori bonissi conspiracy italo martinelli moncada luna pamago prieto procuradora zulay rodriguez
With 5 Comments

WikiLeaks: How Assange gave Martinelli exclusive access to Panama cables

Wikileaks has signed a deal with EPASA, publishers of El Panama America and La Critica, of which the details are unknown. El Panama America started releasing the first ... More »

On Thursday 17 Mar 2011
In Bananamismo
Tag Corruption epasa julian assange martinelli media panama wikileaks
With 4 Comments

WikiLeaks: How Martinelli shakes down foreign businesses

Your Bananama Republic has long maintained that Panama is not a place anyone would want to do business for, among other reasons, its lack of legal security and ... More »

On Wednesday 16 Mar 2011
In Corruption
Tag aes cablegate Corruption investment grade manzanillo martinelli panama shakedown stephenson wikileaks
With 6 Comments

Emerging spy scandal suggests Panama center of anti-Chavez plotting

Martinelli's predisposition with the murky world of espionage and international intrigue was further exposed today by two revelations in the Spanish language press. After having been exposed by WikiLeaks ... More »

On Sunday 13 Mar 2011
In Bananamismo
Tag alvaro uribe casablanca colombia costa rica DAS hugo chavez José Vicente Rangel María del Pilar Hurtado martinelli Oscar Arias panama venezuela wiretapping
With 1 Comment

Inmet: Minera Panama unaffected by repeal of law 8

We said here yesterday that when Martinelli repealed the controversial mining code, also know as Law 8, this move, although celebrated as a victory by activists and the ... More »

On Friday 4 Mar 2011
In Bananamismo
Tag copper donoso inmet law 8 martinelli minera panama
With 7 Comments

Martinelli changes tactics in mining battle

La Ley 8 será derogada en Consejo Extraordinario, un Presidente como yo siempre escuchará a su pueblo Ricardo Martinelli, today on Twitter. President Martinelli made a surpise visit to San ... More »

On Thursday 3 Mar 2011
In Corruption
Tag inmet law 8 martinelli mining ngöbe-buglé petaquilla repeal richard fifer tactics
With 5 Comments

Martinelli: Foreigners, shut up!

PANAMA'S proverbial xenophobia has reached a new low with the expulsion from the country of journalists and human rights activists Paco Gomez Nadal and Pilar Chato, both from ... More »

On Monday 28 Feb 2011
In Bananamismo
Tag alcoholism bipolar bruto constitution drunk human rights martinelli paco gomez pilar chato protest sick in his head
With 11 Comments

Martinelli strikes again

As we write this, Spanish journalist and human rights activist Paco Gomez Nadal is about to be expelled from the country on the 9PM Iberia flight. There are ... More »

On Sunday 27 Feb 2011
In Bananamismo
Tag exile indigenous martinelli mining ngöbe paco gomez panama protest uprising
With 8 Comments

Martinelli, Varela, make fools of themselves on Twitter

AFTER Martinelli's fatal drunken Blackberry chat to then-ambassador Barbara Stephenson demanding help with tapping the phones of his critics, you'd think that our Excelentisimo and his henchmen would ... More »

On Thursday 24 Feb 2011
In Wacky
Tag fools martinelli twitter varela
With 5 Comments

Papadimitriu spouts Gaddafi rhetoric in ongoing mining brawl

In case you missed it: Lybian dictator Gaddafi just today blamed "outside agitators" for feeding the youth of Libya drugs and setting them up against his dictatorship. Also ... More »

On Thursday 24 Feb 2011
In Corruption
Tag fraud gaddafi martinelli mining mubarak ngöbe-buglé panama papadimitriu protest swindle
With 7 Comments

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