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More questions than answers in secret mobster recording scandal that caused the downfall of Roberto "Bobby" Velasquez, while more secret recordings suggest hot election season.
Press freedom debate, Panama style: Ricardo Martinelli sends a stupid tweet, La Prensa and Latino-fascist friends respond as if he has announced a nuclear missile test.
Giselle Burillo won't win anything, but her Michelle Bachman-like antics are too funny to ignore her.
The Martinelli administration is using the San Lorenzo agreement as a shield to finish construction of Barro Blanco asap. However, your Bananama Republic attended various meetings in the comarca over the last days, and it became very clear that a vast majority of the population is willing to take to the streets again to stop the Barro Blanco dam from being built.
One of the few good ideas, we thought, that our beloved president Ricardo Martinelli had was to modernize public transport in the city. Not too long after he took office, the first metrobuses began to appear. Everything seemed to go well, so of course they then had to screw it up completely.
The University's matriculation system keeps crashing, HSBC was hacked, power and water down throughout the country - Panama suffers from bad systems and networks.
Carnival can be a lot of fun, but if you're the corrupt emperor or one of his affiliated empresaurios, it's more than anything else an opportunity.
In a move aimed at continuity after sacking narco Willy Cochez, Panama appoints Arturo Vallarino as its new ambassador to the OAS - a scam pimp who used to promote investment fraud and private militias.
He did it, says Cochez, all in the name of Democracy. He has now sacrificed himself for that great ideal, because Venezuela is, as we all know, a brutal dictatorship with no free elections where the evil Chavez persecutes the media in which he, Guillermo Cochez, freely publishes his rantings. A hero has fallen in the battle for a better world.
Once, Guillermo Cochez hoped to be heading the OAS. Now he's reduced to spouting bile about Hugo Chavez.