The Secretary General of the Democratic Revolutionary Party, Mitchell Doens, told a TVN-2 television program yesterday that he has U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency reports implicating current high ranking government officials of laundering drug money in Panama, Central America and the United States. The Public Ministry will review the tape to determine whether they will...
Politics
Panama Ambassador Reaffirms Relationship with Taiwan
Mario Luis Cucalón D’Anello, Panama’s new Ambassador to the Republic of China (Taiwan) diplomatically presented his credentials to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou last week. Both parties indicated reinitiating a relationship that has not soured diplomatically but has been less reticent economically than it was during the honeymoon period following the 2004 Free Trade Agreement signed...
U.S. Troops Sign-in to Neighboring Colombia
Colombia and the United States have signed an agreement to allow the U.S. military to use seven of its bases over the next 10 years. Colombia shares borders with Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Venezuela. Several Latin American countries are violently opposed to today’s agreement, particularly allies Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia, who see this as part...
President Is Paid His One Dollar
President Ricardo Martinelli has transparently published his $1 check on the National Government’s website. The Panamanian multi-millionaire president donates the rest of his $7,000 ($5,421 after taxes) monthly salary to charity. Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City, whose net worth is $16 billion, popularized symbolic renumeration by accepting $1 of his annual $195,000...
Agitated Panama Port Workers Promised Benefits
More than 50 irritated former Panama Port workers gathered in front of the Presidency today to demand more than $100 million in salary benefits promised by the Martinelli campaign. In July, workers last struck in front of the Balboa port seeking reinstitution of their jobs. Seventy workers were fired for attempting to create syndicates...
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