CORRUPTION changes  jackboots for collar and tie.

Since its founding, La Prensa  promised to fight for freedom and against corruption. Today marks 41 years and the battles have been too many. Panama recovered its democracy but not decency. The corruption sponsored from the barracks moved to the Palace, and it reigns with the same impunity that it enjoyed under the protection of the rifles. Time does not seem to have passed, only the amounts. And justice remains the same, shameful accomplice of endless robbery. Corruption is the worst threat to our democracy today. Years of fighting, exiles, blood, and countless sacrifices seem to have fallen in vain, because civilians steal and lie with the same impunity that always protected the military and its circle of servitors. Corruption stopped wearing boots and now wears a collar and tie. And the lesson of these 41 years is that it does not matter if they wear olive green uniforms or designer clothes, our officials must be closely watched. And it is what La Prensa does every day, and will continue to do so, despite the threats, judicial harassment and attacks that they learned from the military.- LA PRENSA, Aug. 4.