“Safeguard our nation” – Colon Free Zone Users

The Association of Users (AU) of the Colon Free Zone  has joined a fast-growing  body of  business organizations and citizen groups in both exhorting the judicial bodies and the administration  to  “safeguard our nation” as a mechanism to maintain the peace and stability of all sectors of the country, in the wake of the current crisis facing the administration of justice.

This, after the past the Attorney General of the Nation, Kenia Porcell, revealed that the interim president of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), Hernán De Leon, went to her  office to tell her that he had been wiretapped and that as a result of the content of the recording, “they” would be  pressing to “knock down” the  wiretapping case against former president Ricardo Martinelli.

The AU in a statement described as “worrying” a regrettable precedent of distrust in the ethics and transparency of the administration of Justice.

“Let us remember the importance of protecting the rule of law and the institutionality as guarantors of legal security, elements that directly affect the attraction of investments and that both result in the benefit of the economy and of all Panamanians, ” says the document.

President Juan Carlos Varela has denied there is a crisis.