Tag: civil society
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Panama, towards a hollow state
Usually, the process of becoming a hollow state is the result of non-state actors; the narco-gangs in Mexico or the Taliban. By attacking the state, they turn the government into an empty shell. In Panama however, it is the government itself that is hollowing out the state, and the process is now irreversible.
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The perverted fantasies of Giselle Burillo
The cheap attempt to use Palacios’s suspicious reappearance as some sort of “evidence” that the government did nothing wrong and is being falsely accused is a dumb and transparent ploy to distract from the indisputable fact that Martinelli’s gang of thugs did kill at least 4 people in Bocas, and likely more. Including small children.
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Martinelli further isolated, investment grade under threat
Standard & Poor’s warns that Panama could lose its coveted investment grade if Martinelli doesn’t change his ways after human rights groups condemn again the police brutality in Bocas.
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Gustavo Perez, what did you do with Valentín Palacios?
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.
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Martinelli, the isolated existence of a crime boss
If you’re in opposition against a government, what you want to accomplish is its isolation: It’s physical isolation, its mental isolation and its moral isolation. With barely a year in office, the Martinelli government is already visibly suffering from all three forms of isolation.
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TEXT THEM! Protest against Martinelli’s Motta-law grows as assembly continues debate behind closed doors
Today, Friday, The national assembly continues its second debate about the so-called “ley chorizo”. How Martinelli wants to appease the Motta family and civil society protests police impunity, anti-environment and anti-labor measures.
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Martinelli’s cattle call
Martinelli organized a cattle call yesterday so that he can now claim he listens to “civil society”.
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Bernal: I felt safer under Noriega
Human rights activist Miguel Antonio Bernal denounces threats against him and his family by Martinelli and Papadimitriu amidst intensifying campaign to shut down dissent.
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Can Panama’s civil society actually win battles? (2)
The answer is “hell no they can’t”. Not if they keep this up; clumsy undisclosed conflicts of interest and uncontrolled screaming by Angelica Maytín.