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Panama Star - The organization is part of the Evaluation Committee that will have to decide which company will supply the 420 buses initially required to replace the so called “diablos rojos”.

Panama, Feb 13 (Prensa Latina) Problems related to insecurity focus Friday the Panamanian security, above issues like the high cost of life, unemployment and poverty, specialized sources reported.

Business & Economy

Albany-based Patricia Lynch Associates Inc., the state’s second-largest lobbying firm, has started a new company in Panama.

French carrier CMA CGM has decided to bypass the Panama Canal on the homebound leg of its PEX2 service linking Asia to the Caribbean in favor of a longer — but less expensive — route around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.

Elections

Travel & Tourism

Bolivar's Telegraph

In Rio de Janeiro, former presidents César Gaviria of Colombia, Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico and Fernando Enrique Cardoso of Brazil – all heads of state that had presided over prohibitionist policies in their lands – issued a joint report together with various Latin American intellectuals, calling current drug policies “a failed war”: Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift….

Colombian president Alvaro Uribe announced Friday that he plans to increase military pressure on the FARC guerrillas in order to obtain the release of hostages. Uribe ruled out negotiations for a so-called “humanitarian agreement”. (Pulsar)