OPINION: Democracy threatened in electoral snafu
The current electoral campaign, although shorter than the previous ones, has not stopped being the same as of all the...
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OPINION: Martinelli threats and obstruction
Where does the legitimate defense of a defendant end and the abuse of legal remedies begin? This is one...
Nicaragua: agony of democracy
Near the first anniversary of the popular uprising that was drowned in blood by the government of Daniel Ortega in...
OPINION: Panama's recycled pharaohs
The dynamics of clientelistic politics facilitates the re-election of deputies, since, once installed in the Assembly, they negotiate and manage...
OPINION: Mayoralty race painful choices
The electoral offer for the city of Panama, political, economic and cultural center of our country, is painful: an ex-president...
OPINION: Panama’s political parasites
Again, a journalistic investigation of this newspaper shows the abuses of power committed by a deputy. Although it is an...
MEDIAWATCH: May's chaotic Brexit
The effects of Britain leaving the EU are not determined by the day on which it might happen. It is...
OPINION: Drug traffickers and narco politics
Electoral politics is addicted to money. Money finances clientelistic practices; clientelism generates votes; the votes secure charges, and the charges...
OPINION: Assembly lacking decent men and women
The evident absenteeism in the National Assembly shows us once again the priorities of the great majority of the deputies...
OPINION: Democracy for the highest bidder
Since 1997, political parties have received more than $230.4 million in financing with public funds. The purpose of the State,...
OPINION: A deputy above the law?
The attacks carried out against journalists from the independent media Claramente clearly, perpetrated last Sunday, were not free. These violent...
WORLDVIEW: Re-take on Europe’s world rule
By Jonathan Power By 1914 Europeans ruled 84% of the globe. How did they do it? Eleven hundred years ago...
