Corruption
First spaghetti boat already kaput
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Finmeccanica bribe boat breaks down and there's no money for new engines.
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Finmeccanica bribe boat breaks down and there's no money for new engines.
Martinelli bungles his way through Asia while Panama burns and Italian prosecutors are closing in on him.
The US embassy is leaking intelligence information about Gustavo Perez's activities in setting up special forces with former Noriega cronies that could commit a coup.
With a police force that increasingly behaves as if it's above the law and sub-director Eduardo Serracin threatening a coup d'etat, Panama has not been this unstable since 1989.
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.
Ricky and Raul call the Italian embassy: "things have changed, Ricky, Berlusconi is gone, Valter is on the run, I can't help you, and don't call again. It's not safe. It's each on his own now, ciao".
According to Mauro Zuñiga, Martinelli plans to privatize the Social Security, pardon Noriega and use the controversy as cover for an even bigger scandal with Italy than the radar and helicopter bribery.
Hello gringo government! You thought Noriega was bad, turning the country into a branch office of the narco cartels? Think again! Our own Maximo Leader, Ricardo Martinelli, is making Panama a stronghold of the Panamanian-Italian mafia, Canal included!
Italian Paolo Pozzessere sold $300 million of grossly overpriced military equipment to Panama, while his son, Francesco Pozzessere, runs a group of companies with little visible activity or product at all - but they're all in bed with Security Minister Raúl Mulino.
With the Italian Finnmeccanica scandal rapidly expanding, the fact that Panama's president Martinelli is an Italian citizen as well may hold unpleasant consequences - for him. Take him away!