Tourism
Bocas, where Americans go to get whacked
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An invitation to go to Panama and spend some time in Bocas del Toro might not be as romantic as it sounds, now that the remains of yet another murder victim have been found.
Wacky
Intrigue: Murderer lurks among Volcan Highlanders
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Now that Don Winner has majestically failed to solve the case, the Volcan Highlander redneck brigades are going to "eliminate" the murderer in their midst, if they can find him or her, they announced - UPDATED.
Scams & Frauds
Murder case leaves Don Winner confused
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(Updated) - That's how well-informed Don Winner really is, with his inside sources and additional information and secret knowledge bullshit. One day it's a stab wound and don't you dare question his supreme knowledge, and the next it is in fact a strangle wound and of course he is always right.
Corruption
Racist killer Ron McGrew set free
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Ron McGrew killed an innocent Panamanian. First the court convicted him to 5 years in jail, but now we read on the racist killer fanzine Panama Guide that the Supreme Court has apparently overturned that decision and dropped all charges.
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.
Corruption
Murder by killer bacteria
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Dr. Mauro Zuñiga takes on the Doctors of Death in Panama's social security health care.
Bananamismo
Five years for Wild Ronnie
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Racist militia and Tea Party types rally around an expat killer cop.
Bananamismo
Mulino, the dishonorable
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Is it too much to expect that a minister who - together with his colleagues - constantly worries about attacks on his honor and seeks to protect it with ever wackier anti-press laws, in fact acts honorably? In Panama it is.
Corruption
Gustavo Perez, what did you do with Valentín Palacios?
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Valentín Palacios has been missing for over a month after being taken by the police. The situation in Panama is now so bad, and the opposition and the media so lame, that when the police disappears somebody this now generates far less response than during the dictatorship when opposition was more dangerous.
Scams & Frauds
Wild Bill – it’s a right wing thing
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In all these years in Panama, we've not once come across a liberal left-wing progressive running a scam; it's always a strange mix of Christian conservatism with a sauce of bizarre libertarianism, of very low intellectual fiber, as if you're talking to the Down syndrome department of the Tea Party.