Tourism
Tourism in Panama, navigating hostile territory
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Having guests from the US, Bananama Republic set out on a tourism trip through the country. What could possibly go wrong?
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Having guests from the US, Bananama Republic set out on a tourism trip through the country. What could possibly go wrong?
As indigenous leaders demand investigations into murder and rape, the police is hunting down witnesses to its crimes and arresting them.
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.
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.
From the length of school uniform skirts to schoolgirls riding the bus in underwear; Panama's authorities are on top of organized crime.
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.
Policemen held hostage fear for their lives, shots fired from helicopter, and Martinelli hasn't been seen today.
Martinelli's Israeli security team may soon have to show the full scope of its talents now that our mafia-president has created his own version of the Gilad Shalit hostage drama, banana style.
We predict however that the protests will not be contained, but spread over the country, because Martinelli has been majestically overplaying his hand and he and his people don't seem to be handicapped by such things as "common sense". It's no longer if, but when the first Super99 will go up in flames.
Panama's mafia rulers are passing a law during salami slapping sessions in the Assembly to "promote aviation", which includes impunity for the police in case they commit a crime. Any crime.