Tag: mulino
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Total madness in mining standoff
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.
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Noriega still rules
Within just hours after the Iberia flight touched down in Panama, the government had managed to make a total mess of Noriega’s return before the eyes of a baffled world press. What happened?
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Selex radar useless against narcos
The lanchas typically used by drug traffickers are invisible for radar. Not only is this whole radar deal mired in corruption, it’s also a completely unnecessary purchase costing Panamanian taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Desperate Martinelli sends malware
Martinelli’s government of business people put its IT arm at work and launched a really bad attack video and a malware email campaign.
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Mulino, the dishonorable
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.
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Remember, remember, the fifth of November
“… while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there?”
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Human Rights Watch demands investigation into Bocas abuses
“Rather than trying to shift the blame, Panamanian authorities should ensure that those responsible for the abuses are brought to justice,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. “The special commission could help clarify what happened, but it is no substitute for criminal prosecutions.”
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Take the bus to Boquete, get shot at.
This is why we have all these police roadblocks and checkpoints everywhere, dear reader. Our golden duo, minister Mulino of State Repression and Insecurity and police chief and war criminal Gustavo Perez, are so busy shooting protesters in the face, killing others and shaking down drivers for bribes at these checkpoints that the criminals can…
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FARC in Panama, well, duh – Uribe says Martinelli talks shit
None of this fake scandal brings us any closer to the truth of the real issue these days: Martinelli’s own involvement with massive money laundering, the financing of his campaign with drug money and laundering of funds through his businesses. But that is of course the whole purpose of this FARC smokescreen.
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Government prepares anti-gun law with new Spanish words in it
The only ones who are totally unaffected by the law are the criminals. They never cared for licenses and other gun-rules anyway, so the new measures won’t change that much for them. Well done, Mulino!