Thread: Panama in NY Times

From the NY Times:

The D.E.A. faced even more intense pressure last year from Panama, whose right-leaning president, Ricardo Martinelli, demanded that the agency allow him to use its wiretapping program — known as Matador — to spy on leftist political enemies he believed were plotting to kill him.

The United States, according to the cables, worried that Mr. Martinelli, a supermarket magnate, “made no distinction between legitimate security targets and political enemies,” refused, igniting tensions that went on for months.

Mr. Martinelli, who the cables said possessed a “penchant for bullying and blackmail,” retaliated by proposing a law...


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/wo...er=rss&emc=rss

Interesting read! That Julian Assange is a hero

I have to say that I do not understand Panamanian politics. Why work so hard to defeat your opponents when you can't run again anyway?

Maybe he's planning to change that.. Or paving the road for his buddy.. Or maybe its different information he's really looking for. Who knows? All we know it's a dirty world, with no exceptions..