RSS• The Panamanian President’s anti-labor law delivers killer blow on Panamanian workers and sparks protest and citizen unrest • The administration attempts to quiet discontent through physical repression, detainment of journalists, and the declaration of a “National Dialogue” to discuss th[...]
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July 29th, 2010 - 8:30 am § in Front Page, Panama
Panama’s Unraveling Democracy: The Social Cost of Martinelli’s Chorizo Law
Hungry for Justice: Corrupt Courts in Panama Deny Impoverished Children $50 Million in Inheritance
• Feisty Miami Lawyer Takes on Panama’s Political Mafia • Panama’s Financial Carnivores Salivate over $50 million Bequest • The Country’s Corrupt Judicial Establishment in Deep Distress Every three days, at least one Panamanian child dies from malnutrition. But in June of 2006, a glimm[...]
Colombian and Panamanian Human Rights Records Hinder Free Trade Agreement
• Panama and Colombia’s human rights records are poor and will defy cosmetic rehabilitation. • Obama’s credibility will be on the line if he tries to distort reality in order to justify that conditions are right for a Free Trade Agreement to be implemented. • President Obama voted before a[...]
May 10th, 2010 - 11:20 am § in Front Page, Panama
President Martinelli Takes on Bernal Amidst Panama’s Plummeting Prospects to Finally Democratize
• Martinelli establishes his credentials as being worthy of Olympic gold when it comes to being a first-class boor and an authoritarian bully when the issue is democratic dialogue • At stake: An ill-merited free trade agreement with Washington • Panama excels in the world of drugs, crime, mon[...]
March 29th, 2010 - 12:08 pm § in Front Page, Panama
Analysis: Martinelli’s Panama: Tilt or Tide… to the Right?
Ricaurte Soler, one of Panama’s best known academics, used to observe that his country’s sentiment generally militated against contemporary international political currents. However imprecise, this blanket statement does have some truth to it, especially after 1989, when Panama’s p[...]
Professor Russell Crandall, Now of the Pentagon: A Controversial Analyst and Three Controversial Caribbean Interventions
In the U.S. policy arsenal, a series of specialized weapons stand ready to defend democracy, and perhaps of equal importance, to serve Washington’s strategic interests abroad. In “Gunboat Democracy; U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada and Panama” (2006), Professor Russell Cra[...]
PANAMAX 2009 and Honduras: Did They or Didn’t They Attend the Annual War Games?
In another blow against the prestige of the de facto government, ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s unexpected return to Honduras has complicated matters for interim President Roberto Micheletti, who helped plan the seizure of the government on June 28. As public demonstrations suggest, a growing nu[...]
The General In His Labyrinth: Who Remembers Manuel Noriega?
-Although the Geneva Convention calls for the General’s return to Panama, practical considerations would seem to preclude this. -Noriega exists in a legal limbo; French desire to extradite him appears to be legally doubtful, Paris enjoys support from Washington and Panama. Although Manuel Nori[...]
Obama’s new tune on trade
June 14, 2009 By Howard LaFranchi The Christian Science Monitor Candidate Obama opposed new free-trade agreements and wanted to renegotiate NAFTA. A global slump has changed his mind. WASHINGTON - In the heat of last year’s Democratic primary in Ohio, when the party’s presidential nomina[...]