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...“I’m not here so that Panama has to choose between the US and China,” says the American ambassador, Mari Carmen Aponte. But that is how it can often feel to Panamanians. michael.stott@ft.com...
...There is no independence,” says Mari Carmen Rosas, 53, whose 23-year-old son José Luis is unemployed. “My son, whenever he wants to go somewhere or wants to do something, he has to ask me....
...“We saw the concern of our clients about the new scenario,” says Mari Carmen Laguarda, managing director of risk consultants Marsh in Spain and a specialist in financial institutions....
...From my table on the terraza I could see Doña Carmen in her little kitchen and hear the sizzle of the fryer....
...Weaving through this is Fate in the form of a gypsy, Mari Carmen Garcia, executing smatterings of flamenco steps, ostensibly assisting the action at strategic moments of what’s left of the plot but actually...
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