New Attorney General a servile liar journalist victim

Panama’s new Attorney General is a servile liar says a journalist she arrested while in office under the military dictatorship.

Guillermo Sanchez Borbon director emeritus of La Prensa , was reacting to statements made by Ana Belfon, shortly after she was ratified by the plenary of the National Assembly.
According tp Belfon, she never persecuted Sanchez Borbon. What she did was investigate a complaint of defamation against the journalist after he named in his column, the possible perpetrators of the assassination of Dr Hugo Spafadora, in 1986.
"Ana Belfon was not investigating anything … She is a liar …She sought orders from [Manuel Antonio] Noriega, because she is servile ", he told La Prensa on the weekend. The deputies, Had heard Belfon’s own version of the arrest of Sanchez ordered Borbon, when she was a prosecutor of the military dictatorship.
Bourbon Sanchez recalled that naively he went to the office of Belfon, who had called him for questioning. "Belfon rose from her chair and said, 'you're under arrest," he said.
"I spent the most bitter day of my life, because there were psychopaths .telling me they were going to rape me," he said, He was moved to the notorious Modelo prison.
Bourbon Sanchez reiterated he did not commit any crime of libel in his column, because all the names of the murderers of Spadadora that he mentioned were subsequently brought to trial.
He said he was shocked and horrified to learn of the appointment of the new attorney general.. He does not believe in the promise that Belfon will meet the dictates of the Constitution and the laws: "She will not respect anything … she will fulfill the orders of the President. "
He said that there is danger to the freedom of expression with Belfon as prosecutor as there are several complaints in the government files against La Prensa.
"There is danger, because they probably want to close La Prensa as it hinders Martinelli," he said. (La Prensa was shut down by the Dictatorship and government censors sat in newspaper offices).