Panamanian president announces oil has been found in the Darien area

enmerco press ^ | 4/23/10 | staff

[Nachum]

Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli announced Thursday there was oil in the Darien jungle and he planned to expand the mining industry in Panama while protecting the environment.

“Even if you don’t believe it, I am going to say something I shouldn’t say, Panama has oil in the Darien area, we are doing studies and have confirmed it, that the same veins from Colombia reach Panama,” the president said Tuesday.

Ricardo Martinelli discussed Panama’s potential energy resources in an address to the Annual Conference of Business Executives organized by the Panamanian Business Executives Association, or APEDE.

[TexasFreeper2009]

great, just great.

Thanks again Carter for giving it away.

/s

[jy1297]

that’s no where near the canal zone

[norraad]

They knew ( know) about many oil reserves, it's no different than in Hollywood, you don't release all your movies at once.

[Argus]

Another wild surmise, silent upon a peak in Darien.

[Red Badger]

A picture of Darien Gray?.............

[Willie Green]

Thanks again Carter for giving it away.

If only Bush were still POTUS, then we could find an excuse for a "regime change" and raise our gasoline prices to make the Panamanians fabulously wealthy.

[Recon Dad]

Going to be expensive production in the Darien Gap. But if it's a decent play the big boys will be all over it. I would like to hear more details and not from El Presidente.

[Cheetahcat]

It was ours and was not Carters to give away.

[struggle]

MUCH have I travell’d in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star’d at the Pacific—and all his men
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien

[Sigurdrifta]

The Darien Gap is nowhere near and has nothing to do with the Canal, which is the only part of Panama that used to be under US control.

What people should be worrying about is the porous border between Panama and Colombia, where a lot of the FARC guerrillas hide out. Security in that area is going to be a bear.

[zerosix]

Great!!!

Energy can be found and obtained everywhere but here in the U.S.!!!

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Great news.

While the presidents of the U.S. have been keeping our country in a banana state, Panama has surpassed that.

I love Martinelli.

By the way, he gives his presidencial salary to three charities.

Maybe the U.S. can buy oil from Panama since the U.S. politicians don’t allow for digging.

Panama is all set for the future...Good news!!!

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“While the presidents of the U.S. have been keeping our country in a banana state, Panama has surpassed that.”
“While the presidents of the U.S. have been keeping our country in a banana state, Panama has surpassed that.”

I meant to say:

While the presidents of the U.S. have been keeping my country, the United States of America, in a banana state, Panama has surpassed that.