This looks good. The leftists in Panama are thugs.
Finally some good news in the region. Maybe we could all move to Panama and ensure it remains well defended and Right of center?
This is actually VERY good news. The winner is an outright capitalist. He beat the PRD candidate who promised to be a “soft” capitalist.
Thus, for the first time ever in the world probably, you had one declared capitalist running against another declared capitalist and the one that was the more “pure” capitalist won.
Now, these kinds of things are rare and we should enjoy it.
As a side note, as I have been in Panama many times, Panama is probably the best run Latin American country right now.
It is fairly rich (close to Puerto Rico), has a stable legal system, low crime and a BOOMING economy. Lots of us Gringos live in Panama and are amazingly well integrated into the country.
Also, nearly all the educated class speaks English. If Martinelli plays his cards right, Panama can make the transition from a rich second world country to a poor first world country in 5-10 years. It is almost there.
I posted this to a later thread not knowing this post existed; therefore, I will repeat:
Panama just elected its new president yesterday. We are very pleased. He is a mature, wealthy business man. Ricardo Martinelli was educated in the U.S. He owns many supermarkets. He is a multimillionaire entering the presidency and not the other way around.
He will not hesitate to tell that cheeky Kenyan bastard to go to hell and to use the Horn to go from one coast to the other. I would. The heck with treaties.
(The last paragraph is in reference should the cheeky Kenyan bastard try to make Panama go against its own banking laws.)
It remains to be seen whether the new President will do something about the judges delaying in court the residential project by US developers meant to jum start Wilson Lucom´s fund for Panama´s children http://tropiland.blogspot.com/2008/12/another-rights-of-possession-saga-when.html