Yesterday, former Panama City mayor Juan Carlos Navarro compared President Martinelli to famed gangster Al Capone, La Critica reports. Navarro said one similarity is the way Martinelli travels to separate himself from crisis situations like the current controversy generated by the “9 in 1 law” project that seeks to eliminate environmental and workers rights....

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Jose Raul Mulino, the new head of the newly created Department of Homeland Security which begins operation on June 15, would like to be exempt from prior controls in the spending of a proposed $690 million budget. Although clause 2 of article 280 of Panama’s political constitution states that the Comptroller General oversees state...

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