Government links to organized crime

The perception of insecurity that the citizen feels is not only that; It is a concrete fact, although the Government tries to convince us otherwise. An organization that investigates organized crime throughout the world –Global Initiative– places Panama among the countries with a high crime rate and with a State incapable of confronting it. Why can the State do little? Simple: we have criminals entrenched in the Government; still others making laws to benefit perpetrators and abusers, and gang members in political parties. These groups even provide protection because they have accomplices or, worse still, they confront the Public Ministry to defend them with all the political power at their disposal. We haven’t hit bottom, but how are we doing? we will end up with a state under the control of organized white-collar criminals, associated with drug gangsters. The numbers reveal this reality: 178 officials from the three organs of the State – Executive, Legislative and Judicial, including the security forces – were prosecuted in 2021 for their links with organized crime. Those are the defendants. But how many more are left and how much power do they accumulate? – LA PRENSA, Nov. 31.