OFF THE CUFF: Varela’s last shoot

Panama’s outgoing president Juan Carlos Varela crammed in some final photo ops on Saturday, June 29 with  visits along with his cabinet, to the  95% finished National Theater restoration and the 96% completed  Terminal 2, in the hands of the Odebrecht company which has come under renewed scrutiny for its bribery record in Panama.

Varela did not visit the unfinished Amador Convention Center or five unfinished hospitals or the  Avenida site for the long-delayed new Hospital del Nino (children’s hospital)  still awaiting the turning of the first sod.