COLOMBIA “still” a Mess. Young politico shot in June finally passes in hospital

https://newsroompanama.com/2025/08/11/colombian-senator-miguel-uribe-turbay-dies-after-being-attacked-in-bogota/ After two months in the hospital, Colombian senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay died on August 11.  This was reported by his wife, María Claudia Tarazona, on her social networks.  “You will always be the love of my life. Thank you for a lifetime of love, thank you for being a dad to the girls, the…

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End Times Alert: Pinch Me, It’s 2025? Rwanda Is Accepting U.s Immigrant Deports

“JB”-   I mean you HAVE to laugh your ass off to avoid your head exploding. “Bring me your poor, huddled, tired, masses (sic) edit. 2025………” so we can send them to the ass end of the planet once they get here”.. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/rwanda-donald-trump-kigali-east-african-south-sudan-b2802159.html   Rwanda agreed to accept up to 250 deportees from the United States…

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PANAMA hopes to be more than silent supporter in battle of “MICRO PLASTICS

Nations gather in Geneva Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet. It’s the sixth time negotiators are meeting and they hope the last. A key split is whether the treaty should require cutting plastic production, with powerful oil-producing nations opposed;…

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One of the “Great Wonders” shows signs of dangerous environmental stress

LISTEN TO THE SUMMARY https://www.prensa.com/mundo/la-gran-barrera-de-coral-sufre-su-blanqueamiento-mas-extenso-jamas-registrado/ Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has experienced its “most extensive” bleaching event ever recorded , according to a government report released Wednesday warning of the dire health of the natural wonder. Scientists have documented the “most spatially extensive” bleaching event on this reef, considered the largest living structure in the world , since records began nearly 40…

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FOREIGN MINISTER already making the rounds on social circuit as PANAMA passes “velvet rope

Let the “dog and pony” show begin. PANAMA makes it to the VIP Room.  The foreign minister emphasized that removing the country from the list was one of the current Panamanian government’s priorities “from day one.” Panamanian Foreign Minister Javier Martínez-Acha celebrated Panama’s removal from the European Union (EU) money laundering list on Tuesday, July…

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New “pariah” Martinelli sounds like “sour grapes” for Mulino unshackled with new EU status

People are going “all in” and betting hard on Panama with removal from “Gray List”. And IMHO, sounds like RM is a bit “frosty” in thinking of all the money he could have made if this was the case when he was in charge.  Hey “Rico”, you and your family did quite well. No alligator…

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PANAMA off the EU “Gray List

https://newsroompanama.com/2025/07/09/mulino-on-panamas-removal-from-the-european-unions-gray-list-it-was-a-titanic-effort/ Coclé: President José Raúl Mulino said he was “pleased” after Panama’s exclusion from the European Union’s list of high-risk jurisdictions for money laundering.  During an opening ceremony for the new Río Hato Health Center, the president emphasized that a “titanic effort” had been made, forcing him and his government to “push against all odds.”  He noted that, from now on, all…

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Alligator Alcatraz” nonsense making the news in the UK

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/panama-trump-florida-guatemala-kristi-noem-b2778502.html The Homeland Security secretary is praising Florida for coming forward with an idea that’s been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” because it would house immigration detainees in a facility being built in a Florida swamp. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the department has been looking to expand immigration detention capacity, and she has been reviewing contracts Immigration and Customs…

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Was strike on IRAN a success? depends on who you ask

Trump euphorically declared that the Pentagon’s missiles had achieved their goal of destroying three Iranian nuclear bases in Fordó, Natanz, and Isfahan. The US bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, June 21, was dubbed the Midnight Hammer, because it literally pulverized the victim. But Washington and Tel Aviv received the blows not with gunpowder-laden…

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EX-PATS- 401K’s and Retirement Investors, US markets respond to Trump, but IRAN states otherwise

“JB”- Week starts with (2) POSITIVE days amid Trump statements, but IRAN states NO CEASEFIRE reached. ?!?!   https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/22/stock-market-today-live-updates.html MON-   UP (350 pts) https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/stock-market-today-live-updates.html TODAY- UP (500 pts )     https://www.laestrella.com.pa/mundo/iran-desmiente-a-trump-y-rechaza-hasta-el-momento-un-cese-de-hostilidades-con-israel-EJ13924198 Tehran clarifies that there is no agreed truce. The Iranian government makes any military pause conditional on the end of Israeli attacks against…

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