Within just the first week of 2010, authorities registered 27 homicides, mostly associated with drug trafficking. Monday’s fatal shooting of 19-year-old university student, Daniel Carrizo, however, has spurred these public acknowledgements of the crime wave affecting Panama. “I’m sending a message to all this unashamed assasins: Watch out. Don’t play with me,” President Martinelli said....
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Archive for March 11th, 2010
President and Archbishop React to Recent Crime Wave
U.S. Republican Strategist Hired As Panama Image Consultant
Minister to the Presidency, Jimmy Papadimitriu, confirmed that Panama has hired U.S. Republican publicist/strategist Terry Holt to shape up the country’s international image, La Prensa reports. Papadimitriu emphasized that Holt is only bringing public relation services and not using his Capitol Hill connections for lobbying. Holt, on his end, sent the U.S. Department of...
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