Tag: shamah
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So what’s up with the Canal expansion?
Critics in 2006 were right in everything they said about the Panama Canal expansion project, which is now in tatters.
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Carnival of the corrupt
Carnival can be a lot of fun, but if you’re the corrupt emperor or one of his affiliated empresaurios, it’s more than anything else an opportunity.
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Martinelli wants his money back
Martinelli concentrates on getting his money back in widening scandal, after not so secret meeting of Shamah with chief of Financial Pacific.
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WikiLeaks: Panama to protect US borders by cleaning up Tocumen smugglers den
A newly released cable from the US embassy in Panama shows how the US sees efforts to clean up the Tocumen international airport smugglers den as vital to secure the US border against illegal immigration, and lists the Motta family, the Waked family and tourism minister Shamah as suspects.
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Martinelli implicated in arms trafficking
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.
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MARTINELLI OR NARCONELLI?
Yesterday the legal counsel of David Murcia, Margarita Pabon, was extradited from Colombia to the United States, on charges of money laundering. As soon as the news of her extradition became known, the server of the Public Registry in Panama “crashed”….
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Medical Tourism is a dumb and dangerous fantasy
The latest in Panamanian shams is “medical tourism”, but unless you are some sort of a medical thrill-seeker addicted to malpractice and poisoned medicine, you may want to think twice before heading over for your next breast implant or other surgical procedure.
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Government scared shitless by left
Javier Arias, Roberto Henriquez and Shlomo Salmon all spend considerable time worrying about the left in Panama. Not to mention the insane response to SUNTRACS protests. Don’t these people have work to do?