Bananama Republic

Tag: martinelli

  • Mayin Correa wants to die

    Dramatic turn of events in all-out war of corruptos against corruptos has Panama governor seek assisted suicide through statement in La Prensa.

  • Martinelli in serious money trouble

    Martinelli faces a deficit of $2.5 billion on a $15 billion budget. With $4.5 billion disappearing into the black hole called “corruption” and Panamanians willing to riot to prevent him from selling off state assets, the supermarket baron is effectively out of funding.

  • Mayhem at the Assembly!

    Martinelli is not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a political and business environment that has been created and nurtured for decades by the same people who now pose as the saviors of democracy. It’s a fight between factions of corrupt, rich elites, with ordinary Panamanians caught in the middle.

  • Bernie dance turns political

    President Martinelli doing the Bernie dance divides the nation.

  • Martinelli hammers Pronto Cash

    Years ago, Blandón & Young threatened your reporter. Now it’s Martinelli threatening them, over the same Pronto Cash case. How times change!

  • Panama opens doors to immigrants

    You probably didn’t believe we’d ever say this, but there finally came some good news out of the Martinelli administration. Last Monday a decree was published in the Gaceta Oficial, which opens Panama’s doors to citizens from a list of countries who want to undertake some kind of business activity here.

  • PRD in mudslinging mode

    Of course this is good news for Panama. If the PRD ceases to be a political force, we will finally have gotten rid of a group of delinquents that still celebrates a military coup and dictatorship figures in its propaganda.

  • The “callcenters” now have a name

    La telaraña de La Prensa: Rafael Perez G. is the second former La Prensa employee revealed to do dirty work and run smear campaigns for Ricardo Martinelli.

  • Presidency ordered phone blackout

    The cellphone shutdown in Ngöbe protest areas was not the result of “sabotage” or any such fantasy, but ordered by the Presidency through a former La Prensa employee.

  • Why the Ngöbe had to die

    Only under Martinelli has Panama had to live through no less than three deadly crises to protect the shady business interests of the government’s associates.