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...“[But the candidates] are conscious that they can’t keep delaying addressing some of these problems.”...
...The comments were echoed by Valdevino Pereira, who was shining shoes at the foot of the beaux-arts Martinelli building, the tallest building in Latin America when it opened in 1929....
...Presidential elections are due in Panama next year, with former president Ricardo Martinelli, who faces a 10-year prison sentence for money laundering, far ahead in the polls....
...I can’t stand for re-election but I hope that style of government continues.”...
...The venue is the Vale do Anhangabaú — a spartan plaza ringed by iconic structures like the 1920s Martinelli Building, the city’s first skyscraper, and the somewhat older St Benedict’s Monastery....
...“That cost can’t be transferred to customers. You can’t double the price of a dish. They have no choice but to look at alternative proteins.”...
...Other news Former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli was extradited from the US to face corruption charges....
...But “it doesn’t matter how high you are, the law is still above you”. The decision, although expected even by Lula’s defence, is stunning....
...“There’s an old English saying that small plants don’t grow in the shade of big trees,” I said making up an old English saying....
...“I don’t expect this to lead to one single legal case,” Mr Fonseca told the Financial Times by telephone from Panama....
...“Refuse the help that doesn’t help you do without help,” the five singers tell us, before moving on to another chorus: “The debt is foreign to us, so we can’t pay it.”...
...But, as Jamil Anderlini, the FT’s Beijing bureau chief, points out, size isn’t everything....
...“We don’t consider there will be any competition,” Fernando Núñez Fábrega, Panama’s foreign minister, told the Financial Times last month when asked about the Nicaraguan rival....
...The story prefigures in many ways the 2011 Egyptian revolution, which Al-Aswany was heavily involved in, and Jean-Louis Martinelli’s staging is true to its complexity....
...The president, Ricardo Martinelli, a supermarket tycoon elected in 2009, was voted Central America’s second least popular president this year....
...The growth is spurred by the remarkable programme of public works being implemented by the government of Ricardo Martinelli, the president....
...But, like the Beatles, the response of their opponents is to sing, not the Internationale, but “Can’t Buy Me Love”....
...“We can’t build warehouses fast enough,” says Henry Kardonski, general manager of Panama-Pacifico, a $600m investment by the property company London & Regional that will turn a former US air base into an...
...In addition, there has been trouble at t’mill....
...Sometimes they cross-over roles – which sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. Silvio Berlusconi was a businessman-turned-politician – and that clearly didn’t work for Italy....
...“Most Panamanians have moved on, and they don’t want to look back,” says Michael Shifter, president of the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue. “The country has changed beyond recognition.”...
...’s graduates, but “I don’t think it will be radically down”....
...to the industry …is concerning,” said Ms Brown’s legislative director, Nick Martinelli....
...“This confidence will translate into votes,” said Mr Martinelli....
...We have won the battle of ideas,” Olivier Martinelli, the right-hand man of Mr Le Pen, told Wednesday’s Libération. “The climate has never been so favourable.”...
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