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"Wild Bill" and his charming wife/girlfriend have been caught while trying to enter Nicaragua in a hijacked boat. This will solve at least a couple of murder cases in Bocas as well as some missing person mysteries, but the majority of the guilty in recent killing sprees remains at large.
Martinelli's partial suspension of the sausage law is a lame attempt at "divide and conquer", is not being taken seriously and will only lead to more protests and violent clashes.
Street battle may be over in Bocas del Toro and daily life may slowly resume in the town of Changuinola, but we're only now getting a first glimpse at the size of the stinking mess president Martinelli and his government have caused.
On top of protests all over Panama, labor unions in Spain marched in front of Panama's consulate in Barcelona, which is headed by a nephew of our First Lady in good nepotist fashion.
Two important conclusions from today: Martinelli is further isolated within his own governing coalition as they've shown us where to drive the wedge, and when it comes to street battle, the police loses.
Our deep throat sources in the government tell us that president Martinelli has finally discovered that the now infamous "sausage law", violates all kind of international agreements and treaties as well as conditions to obtain financing from such institutions as the Inter American Development Bank.
While Martinelli was doing imitations of Charlie Chaplin playing Hitler, the protest march that was held in the real world was entirely peaceful, and the biggest of such events since those held against Martin Torrijos's social security reforms, about five years ago.
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.