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- The Bull Sets The Rules In This Fight
Bullfighting aficionados know that every once and a while the bull wins. There is for example the case of the bull Islero, who in 1947 killed famous toreador Manolete and the animal, like our Panamanian El Toro, still has its own Facebook fanpage.
El Toro, defiant as ever, is showing the current rulers that they don’t make the rules. He does. After all, current president Martinelli served as his director of the Social Security and there is no way El Toro will allow a simple supermarket king to have him locked up just because he used his presidency to multiply his fortune. For ten years since he was president, El Toro was allowed to further his business interests and remain an important player in national politics. The tentacles of the Toro network reach into every corner of Panamanian society.
News
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- 28.Nov
- Bosco the Clown: Let Me Work!
President Martinelli’s court jester, Panama City mayor Don Bosco Vallarino, begged journalists, civil society and the Public Ministry if they would please let him alone and do his work. Bosco alleged that a conspiracy has been hatched against him.
- 13.Feb
- Transmovil remains the best solution
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”.
- 13.Feb
- Insecurity Grips Panama
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
- 13.Feb
- Patricia Lynch opens Panama business
Albany-based Patricia Lynch Associates Inc., the state’s second-largest lobbying firm, has started a new company in Panama.
- 13.Feb
- CMA CGM Asia-Carib service to bypass Panama Canal
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.
Bolivar's Telegraph
- 31.Dec
- Bolivia Launches Coca Energy Drink
Forget lame energy drinks like Red Bull and what have you. Real energy drinks have coca in them! Soon in Panama?
- 13.Feb
- Uribe Rejects Negotiating With FARC
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)
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Features, People
- 24.Sep
- The Great Opera Revival
Sylya, general director of Fundación Ópera Panamá, is knee-deep in producing a four-night run of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Three weeks before opening night, Sylya’s to-do list remains scarily long. An international opera singer herself, Sylya is known for commanding performances…
- 06.Sep
- War and Peace in Kuna Yala
We know Panama’s indigenous Kuna tribe from the tourist brochures: Peaceful people who make nice “molas”. In reality their leaders are committing massive environmental crimes outside Kuna Yala and destroying property that is not theirs. This story is about the other side of the Kunas, their alliance with the Colombian FARC, their kidnappings of innocent campesinos, the rise of warlordism on the Caribbean coast and the contracting of French mercenaries, and the local authorities proposing “killing five or six of them” as a plausible solution.
- 22.Aug
- Meet Rachel Divine
The Isthmian meets yoga therapist Rachel Divine, who after much wandering is now settling down in Panama. We also find out there’s nothing fluffy about yoga: “You wanna see my balls?”
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Features, People, Things to Know
- The Great Opera Revival
Sylya, general director of Fundación Ópera Panamá, is knee-deep in producing a four-night run of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Three weeks before opening night, Sylya’s to-do list remains scarily long. An international opera singer herself, Sylya is known for commanding performances…
- War and Peace in Kuna Yala
We know Panama’s indigenous Kuna tribe from the tourist brochures: Peaceful people who make nice “molas”. In reality their leaders are committing massive environmental crimes outside Kuna Yala and destroying property that is not theirs. This story is about the other side of the Kunas, their alliance with the Colombian FARC, their kidnappings of innocent campesinos, the rise of warlordism on the Caribbean coast and the contracting of French mercenaries, and the local authorities proposing “killing five or six of them” as a plausible solution.
- Meet Rachel Divine
The Isthmian meets yoga therapist Rachel Divine, who after much wandering is now settling down in Panama. We also find out there’s nothing fluffy about yoga: “You wanna see my balls?”
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