THE DARK SIDE OF THE FILTHY POLITIC IN PANAMA

FROM THE - JOURNALS of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA   ~Contributed & Written by Olmedo Beluche

SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN PANAMA.

There are times when one regrets not being Shakespeare or, at least, Corin Tellado because Panamanian politics is a tragicomedy that would for several soap operas.

The last week of May shook the country with a recording in which Roberto Velasquez allegedly responsible break His legs to its main rival, José Luis Fabrega, apparent candidate of economic power.

Recording it was known by a tweet released by the president, Ricardo Martinelli, before leaving on a trip whose first stop was the Grand Prix of Monaco, which suddenly appeared next to Prince Albert. The bizarre affair was settled with the forced resignation of Velasquez and Fabrega's victory in the primaries of the PRD.

The incident, which in another country would not actually isolated in Panama is a symptom of the decay of the political system and widespread corruption that spreads everywhere. In 2009, the scandals accompanied the election for mayor of Panama City.

We all remember the case of the meeting between Roberto Velasquez and David Murcia. The "burn" of Velasquez's victory led Bosco Vallarino, who broke the law, because he had given up the Panamanian citizenship. The National Assembly gave him citizenship retroactively. But Vallarino resigned after a meeting with Martinelli.

The controversial relationships Murcia reached Balbina Herrera and Ricardo Martinelli. He accused her to get her briefcase, she accused him of its supermarkets were part of the pyramid of Murcia. As always happens in Panama, elapsed elections, investigations were killed in a filing cabinet prosecutors. Back in 2013, Martinelli opened fire saying: "There is no more corrupt person in this country that Juan Carlos Navarro.

Soon they will start to go all the beauties of corruption Navarro "(The Press, 06/04/1013). And people with some logic question: Does the President who knows of a crime, but has not reported to the justice, is itself committing another crime? Or just about slander, which is also a crime? More and more people regard politicians as the most corrupt of society.

According to the Electoral Tribunal, Martinelli's campaign in 2009, spent nearly 20 million dollars and Balbina Herrera, another $ 10 million, a mayor is spent on campaign $ 200K and a deputy $ 300 billion. Vote buying and payment of consideration to be ordinary. All part of the decay of the capitalist system in Panama is reaching its climax. In this context of corruption and money, are in danger of drowning electorally new proposals alternatives to traditional party, if there is no unity in an electoral front left, popular and union that produces a shift in the electorate.

As political power gives access to a juicy public purse to hand, there are many willing to break bones in order to win at all costs. For now, like Horace (character Hamlet), it follows: "At what particular point I have to direct my thinking, is something I do not know, but according to the logic upon my understanding, this portends a strange commotion in our State "
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