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Cocaine Cowboys. How the drugs transformed Miami into something that looks a lot like Panama today. "All these banks", says one of the protagonists (which also tells you all you need to know about people like Eisenmann getting into shady banking in Miami in the eighties). "All this construction", says another.
We were already getting used to construction workers dying because they kept falling off these skyscrapers because the developers are too cheap to install proper safety measures, but the people behind Rivage Tower have come up with a new variant on the theme: Launch large pieces of metal on cars!
We can all learn from Panama City mayor Bosco the Clown. Here's how he will get rich of garbage in four easy steps!
Stanford Bank is being sold, but Bananama Republic just learned that Stanford Bank Panama represents one of the 28167 claims lodged against the failed Icelandic bank Kaupthing Bank hf.
Our beloved president Ricardo Martinelli is off to Colombia in search of entrepreneurs who want to launder money in Panama and meanwhile the gusanos who populate the National Assembly are doing their utmost best to obtain a national state of Total Corruption.
Believe it or not, but we just learned that at the Academia Interamericana de Panamá there is a teacher called Russ Stayanoff who relies for his journalism classes on the advice of a criminal, and urges his students to visit his website with pirated material.
Exporting goods to the US from countries that don't have a free trade agreement is actually easier and cheaper than within the framework of FTA's such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), writes Heide B. Malhotra in the Epoch Times.