Tag: police
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Harassment of activists and journalists full steam ahead
A photographer beaten up, journalists threatened and rounding up environmental activists – the new rules of the game under Ricardo Mafianelli.
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Police beats up and teargases protesters to facilitate Grupo Cuerva dam
Police teargassed and arrested activists in Chiriqui to facilitate a hydroelectric dam to be built by neo-colonial Spanish Grupo Cuerva.
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SUNTRACS: “Police only good for repression”
SUNTRACS denounces violations of civil rights, arbitrary arrests and legal juega vivo in police agression of yesterday.
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Creative with Cocaine
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…
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PRD just can’t wrap its head around police chief war crimes
First, Panama’s PRD party slammed Martinelli for his police chief. Then, they realized that the hostage taker was, actually, one of them!
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Bringing down the war criminal Gustavo Pérez
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…
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Panama police gizmos don’t work, duh
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.