Folklorist José Augusto Broce paid the price yesterday for violating the town of Guararé mayor’s decree that the mejorana never be played on foreign instruments. The musician protested this antiquated edict by collecting 5,000 pennies from his village to pay the fine. The National Folkloric Festival of la Mejorana in Guararé, which took place in September...
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Archive for November 7th, 2009
Folklorist Pays $50 Fine in Pennies
Firefighters Threatened in Pentagon-Centenarian Gang Warfare
Gang members warned firefighters not to get involved in their arsonous retaliation against a rival gang in Santa Ana, La Prensa reports. On Thursday, the Pentagon gang’s leader, Garrido Carillo, was shot 16 times outside of an Obarrio neighborhood casino. His underlings are seeking revenge by burning a residence of their enemy gang, The...
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Martinelli Pledges Millions to Revive Colon
The government will invest millions of dollars in a new hospital, homes and an international airport in Colon to restore the city’s former glory. Colon was founded on swampland in 1850 as the Atlantic terminus of the Panama Railroad and first named Aspinwall, after the founder of the Panama Railroad Company. Finished in 1855,...
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