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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.
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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.
What's going on with Silva Tree, Sustainable Capital Group and Patrick Visser, Maurice Sjerps and Keren Visser-Katz? Your Bananama Republic decided to run a factsheet.
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.
As indigenous leaders demand investigations into murder and rape, the police is hunting down witnesses to its crimes and arresting them.
President Martinelli may be invisible, but our sources tell us that behind the scenes he is yelling and screaming and having rage attacks as if there's no tomorrow, demanding that his hydroelectric plants be realized.
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.
As we are entering the third day of street battle and protests after the police started to crack down on Ngöbe protesters with live ammo and teargas, we're blogging events live here as they happen.
The Gnoble-Bugle people were repressed by the revived Defense Forces, who battered the Panamanians during the 21 years of military dictatorship. These soldiers are the ones who "protect" the Colombian border from the drug trade. We know they are the ones in charge of allowing and guarding cocaine shipments from the south.
It's day five in the blockade of the Panamerican highway by the Ngöbe people in protest against mining on their lands, and the Martinelli government is ready for the psych ward as it continues to contradict itself on just about everything.
US embassy warden Mike Hinton publicly states he would kill one or more Ngöbe protesters should he get stuck at a roadblock.