Politics
Harassment of activists and journalists full steam ahead
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A photographer beaten up, journalists threatened and rounding up environmental activists - the new rules of the game under Ricardo Mafianelli.
Politics
Police beats up and teargases protesters to facilitate Grupo Cuerva dam
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Police teargassed and arrested activists in Chiriqui to facilitate a hydroelectric dam to be built by neo-colonial Spanish Grupo Cuerva.
Politics
SUNTRACS: “Police only good for repression”
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SUNTRACS denounces violations of civil rights, arbitrary arrests and legal juega vivo in police agression of yesterday.
Bananamismo
Creative with Cocaine
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One of the great things about the "war on drugs" is that it brings out the best in our heroic policemen and women. We don't know if you've ever noticed, dear reader, but every time they make one of those drug busts their creative juices start flowing and we get these pictures of mosaics made of bundles of cocaine!
Politics
PRD just can’t wrap its head around police chief war crimes
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First, Panama's PRD party slammed Martinelli for his police chief. Then, they realized that the hostage taker was, actually, one of them!
Politics
Bringing down the war criminal Gustavo Pérez
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It looks like Martinelli and his crowd will put their heels in the sand and stick with policy and a police chief that nobody wants. After the vulgar show of sacking the Attorney General this is yet another example that Martinelli lacks the qualities to be a statesman as he clings to his mistakes like a spoiled child.
Bananamismo
Panama police gizmos don’t work, duh
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The new electronic toys our visionary government bought for the police to check someone's record on the spot (they call that "instant verification technology"), don't work. Or better said: The toys itself work, but these geniuses have now found out that it's a sort of useless if you don't keep the data up to date.