Rescuing Panama from its citizens
I was born in Panama City, grew up, educated and have worked throughout the capital. Never in my life...
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Escape routes paved for powerful fugitives from justice
The saga of the fugitives, the children of former President Ricardo Martinelli Berrocal, demonstrates, with nauseating crudeness, how judicial...
OPINION: Theft of buses gives life to old phrase
After what we have heard in the preliminary hearing for the irregular compensation paid to the owners of the...
OPINION: A $40 million reason to revoke mayor’s mandate
How can the mayor of the capital city explain or justify spending more than $40 million on consultancies? How...
Lifting the lid off cabinet meetings
The Minister of the Presidency, through a resolution, prohibited public access to the minutes, files and notes of the...
OPINION: Justified suspicions of politicians’ honesty
It seems like a thing of prehistory that, in the XXI century, citizens do not know details of who...
OPINION: Paradise Lost to political crime
For the second day in a row, the political community and control institutions remain silent on the issue of...
The failure of social security dialogue
The dialogue for the Social Security Fund (CSS) is a resounding and complete failure. We witnessed how the government...
Appalling backlog in sexual assault hearings
The statistics on sexual assaults in Panama are as appalling as the crime itself. Between 2016 and 2021, almost...
OPINION: Millionaire political transportistas
Undoubtedly, politicians are like vultures in search of the opportunities offered by the State. They look for them to...
Lessons from the war in Ukraine
There are lessons to be learned from the war that Russia declared on Ukraine, even imitated. The first is that,...
Prisons – Panama’s greatest shame
Panamanian prisons are our greatest shame. Although they are intended to be the place where people who have committed crimes...
