Bananamismo
Crook’s PR flack Tomás Cabal turns terrorism fighter
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Parting minister Nuñez Fabrega and his anti-terrorism analist Tomas Cabal are old buddies from the days of the Banaico scandal.
Corruption
US embassy leaks coup plotters
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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.
Corruption
Coup threat in Panama
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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.
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Mulino punched KO by Gustavo Perez
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Police chief and Noriega loyalist Gustavo Perez now orders which laws can be discussed in National Assembly and which ones can't.
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.
Bolivar's Telegraph
Martinelli’s rage attacks, threats
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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.
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
Martinelli & the poor: Kill them, maim them, dry them and fry them
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As if the massacre in Bocas last year wasn't enough for our bloodthirsty baby-killing narco-in-charge, we now have 7 teenagers with severe burnings in the Santo Tomás hospital.
Bananamismo
Palacios reappears, walks on water
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We don't know about you, dear reader, but we have tremendously enjoyed the great Palacios show over the last days. He was missing. The police said "we know nutting". Then everybody got angry and demanded an investigation and, voilá! There was Palacios!
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.