Bananama Republic (https://www.bananamarepublic.com/tag/mining/page/2/)
While our c̶a̶p̶o̶ ̶d̶i̶ ̶m̶a̶f̶i̶a̶ great president Martinelli was babbling in Davos about how Panama has real press freedom, the immigration authorities at Tocumen International M̶o̶n̶e̶y̶ ̶L̶a̶u̶n̶d̶e̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶C̶e̶n̶t̶e̶r̶ Airport stopped Canadian journalist Rosie Simms from entering the country.
Did he, after weeks of battling it out in the streets with a furious Ngöbe Buglé population, tens of wounded, millions in damages, expelled journalists, an international storm of criticism and polls showing that a majority of Panamanians is against mining, finally see the light? We don't really believe that.
The authentic protests of the Ngöbes have now accomplished what snotty environmentalists, unions and other "civil society" groups, despite being better "educated" and having more resources, have not: To keep their lands free of open pit mines.
Journalist Paco Gomez Nadal to be expelled from Panama tonight; violent repression of indigenous protests against mining, uprising in the making.
A fake indigenous leader turns out to be paid by the government and possibly Canadian mining interests while sectarianism and ego-pumping further divide anti-mining protests.
Just like Gaddafi, Mubarak, Ben Ali et al, Papadimitriu blames protests against Martinelli's mining scheme on outside agitators. Meanwhile, the government bought itself a tribal leader for fun and profit.
If you invade you will be met with force, but this simple knowledge, passed from generation to generation over many millenniums, has somehow not reached the failed abortion that currently serves as our president.
Key areas like Punta Barco, Coronado, Punta Pacifica, El Valle, Boquete and other such places where the members of our government and their friends live or own their vacation homes are unaffected. So there's nothing to worry about, really.
According to its own environmental impact study, an emergency tank should already have been there in January, before they started operations. Why Petaquilla was allowed to start operating without having complied with that condition in an area that gets vast amounts of rain year-round is anyone's guess.