Tag: indigenous
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Panama Crisis – Live Blog Feb 7
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.
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Martinelli strikes again
Journalist Paco Gomez Nadal to be expelled from Panama tonight; violent repression of indigenous protests against mining, uprising in the making.
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Martinelli implicated in arms trafficking
After persistent accusations of money laundering, narco campaign donations and ties with drug trafficking, president Martinelli is now being implicated in arms trafficking through yet another family member, who is Panama’s ambassador in Italy.
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Panamax 2010 arms fair trains wacky coup scenario
This year, inspired by events in Bocas, they have created a new doom scenario to practice: an indigenous coup d’etat. This would of course be a clear danger to the Canal, because everybody knows that mafiosi are to be fully trusted running the waterway and indigenous banana planters are not.
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Panama, a racist nation
The UN slams Panama for omnipresent racism and racist policies against the black and indigenous population of the country.