What the papers say: Justice in Panama

La Prensa, March 1
From grave to grave, a justice system that take hits and more hits to become a sad and painful  joke. How is it possible that bonds for release can be circumvented because a backyard shyster takes this case, in front of the passivity of our prosecutors and judges?
There are already too many processes that our justice administrators allow to take over while the actual charges are mocked by detainees who leave and enter the country or private hospitals, or go to political meetings or sit on the same plane as the prosecutors who ordered the arrest.

Our authorities continue undaunted, until media or a third party exposes what’s going on. When are judges going to impose sanctions both to defendants and their lawyers for abuses to good faith? And the Bar Association, which has the duty to enforce compliance with ethical principles and codes from the "collaborators" of justice– which is what they call their members– "one day surprise us with exemplary punishments made known to the public ?”