Red carpet treat for high flying fugitives 

The legal situation in Panama of the Martinelli Linares brothers – children of former President Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014) – was never an obstacle for the authorities of the Executive and Judicial organs to offer them help. Unexplained, for example, are the release bonds in favor of those who were fugitives from justice, even with Interpol red alerts. Then, they obtained passports without any official, local or abroad, being struck by the fact that they were granting them to characters that the local justice claimed. Then, they receive permission to enter the country from the Ministry of Health and the Civil Aeronautics Authority, while the Ministry of Commerce and Industry had safe passages ready to circulate as soon as they arrived. This, without counting the help – it is not known who – so that upon arrival they identified themselves as members of the Parlacen, which would have hindered the proceedings against them. And while this was happening, the country remained as an accomplice to the flight of some accused in the United States, our main trading partner. Today, justice will face a new challenge: a judge must decide whether to recognize the principle of specialty for the former president. Hopefully we will not end once again with the failure of a third world country.LA PRENSA, Jul 13