cochinadas
Panama; dirty people in a dirty city
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Our favorite magazine tells us that Panamanians are cochinos and that this needs to change, for tourism.
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?
Tourism
9 Real reasons to like Panama
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Expats and expat websites keep telling each other how much they like Panama for all the wrong reasons. Here's what really is to like about the isthmus.
Bananamismo
Top 5 things that should change in the next 5 years
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From overpriced real estate to COPA and the legal system; here is what we'd want to see change in the next five years.
Corruption
The numerology of Salomón Shamah
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The Colombian arms trafficker who made it tourism minister in Panama spent a million bucks on a defunct website and can't figure out where it ranks in the search engines.
Tourism
Coronado and San Carlos crime wave to affect tourism and real estate, but not wacky developers
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In case you didn't know: The Pacific coast of Panama, from Chame to, say, San Carlos and Playa Blanca, is going through a crime wave. Last Friday night, we understood from Eric Jackson, armed men invaded restaurant Rancho Los Toros, robbed about a dozen people and stabbed at least one other.
Tourism
Decameron offers gunfight package
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The development of a mature tourism industry in Panama is still in its infancy, but the Colombian owned Decameron resort has taken the lead by offering a new spectacular action-packed gangland shoot'em up style weekend package for those who expect just a little bit more excitement than sitting on the beach drinking piña coladas.
Tourism
Toxic smoke, garbage and polluted water welcome tourists to Panama
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Vacationing foreigners massively abandoned hotels and resorts near Rio Hato, Playa Blanca, as toxic smoke wafted over the beaches because of a garbage pile being set on fire.
Tourism
Cultural Tourism: Visit the Panama Wall!
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Minister of Security Raul Mulino, also known as the "Butcher of Bocas", gifted with a bottomless imagination where it comes to promoting our glorious nation, has announced plans to hermetically seal the border with Costa Rica.
Corruption
Casco Viejo Taliban kidnap Mir Rodriguez at zombie walk
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Of course the third world pompous pricks that pass for "authorities" in our country had to cause trouble at the Zombie Walk, even though the event had the necessary permits. And so corregidor Jairo Morán arrested environmental activist Mir Rodriguez - and hardly any of the zombies lifted a finger. With video!