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Here is the reason that the reporter is so interested in this story.....the man running for president is Martin Torrijos Espino, and he is the front runner for the current election.....his campaign manager just happens to be one of the owners (investors) of Bet Panam....thus creating quite the scandal in the making for him....
Analysis: Panama's favorite contender
By Rafael Candanedo
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
PANAMA CITY, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Martin Torrijos Espino is the favorite candidate to win the May 2 presidential elections in Panama. He is the 40-year-old son of President General Omar Torrijos Herrera, who in 1968 established a military regime and in 1977 successfully negotiated the Panama Canal treaties. Torrijos Herrera died in a plane crash in 1981.
Three months before the elections, Martin comfortably occupies first place in the polls, with a lead of more than 15 points over his main rival, Guillermo Endara, president from 1990 to 1994. What are the similarities between Omar Torrijos and his son Martin?
"They are two different people, with different circumstances, different lives and contexts," reflected Raul Leis, writer, sociologist and university professor at the University of Panama.
"It would be unfair to compare them. Torrijos' son is a candidate whose history has not yet been written, while his father was a head of state who did not go through any election process," said Leopoldo Neira, president of the polling firm LatiNetwork Dichter and Neira. Omar was a military populist who led a revolutionary process for 13 years, effected certain changes in the economic, political and social structures, and left as his main legacy the negotiation and signing of the 1977 Panama Canal treaties.
The treaties completed a process of decolonization which ended with transference of the canal's sovereignty to Panama. Martin Torrijos is a politician with little experience, but leads a party founded by the military in 1978. "And with fewer utopias than in Omar's time," observed Leis. Martin Torrijos grew up in a post-colonial country without military bases and, in the era of globalization, without a high priority on nationalism which typified his father.
Martin incarnates some of his father's values, like his closeness to the less fortunate, although it is hard to say if he is going to champion popular causes. In the next few weeks, the electoral process will polarize. Who will challenge Torrijos? Analysts are not yet certain.
Here is the reason that the reporter is so interested in this story.....the man running for president is Martin Torrijos Espino, and he is the front runner for the current election.....his campaign manager just happens to be one of the owners (investors) of Bet Panam....thus creating quite the scandal in the making for him....
Analysis: Panama's favorite contender
By Rafael Candanedo
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
PANAMA CITY, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Martin Torrijos Espino is the favorite candidate to win the May 2 presidential elections in Panama. He is the 40-year-old son of President General Omar Torrijos Herrera, who in 1968 established a military regime and in 1977 successfully negotiated the Panama Canal treaties. Torrijos Herrera died in a plane crash in 1981.
Three months before the elections, Martin comfortably occupies first place in the polls, with a lead of more than 15 points over his main rival, Guillermo Endara, president from 1990 to 1994. What are the similarities between Omar Torrijos and his son Martin?
"They are two different people, with different circumstances, different lives and contexts," reflected Raul Leis, writer, sociologist and university professor at the University of Panama.
"It would be unfair to compare them. Torrijos' son is a candidate whose history has not yet been written, while his father was a head of state who did not go through any election process," said Leopoldo Neira, president of the polling firm LatiNetwork Dichter and Neira. Omar was a military populist who led a revolutionary process for 13 years, effected certain changes in the economic, political and social structures, and left as his main legacy the negotiation and signing of the 1977 Panama Canal treaties.
The treaties completed a process of decolonization which ended with transference of the canal's sovereignty to Panama. Martin Torrijos is a politician with little experience, but leads a party founded by the military in 1978. "And with fewer utopias than in Omar's time," observed Leis. Martin Torrijos grew up in a post-colonial country without military bases and, in the era of globalization, without a high priority on nationalism which typified his father.
Martin incarnates some of his father's values, like his closeness to the less fortunate, although it is hard to say if he is going to champion popular causes. In the next few weeks, the electoral process will polarize. Who will challenge Torrijos? Analysts are not yet certain.
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now when you think about it and how american politics are, the enemy is always looking for dirt.....according to this article, his rival in the election is Guillermo Endara, so maybe that is the avenue to take.......start contacting Guillermo Endara's camp
HERE'S THE OPPONENT'S EMAIL ADDRESS:
admin@guillermoendarapresidente.com
now when you think about it and how american politics are, the enemy is always looking for dirt.....according to this article, his rival in the election is Guillermo Endara, so maybe that is the avenue to take.......start contacting Guillermo Endara's camp
HERE'S THE OPPONENT'S EMAIL ADDRESS:
admin@guillermoendarapresidente.com
It is my belive that shrink and krackman may have been duped as well as all of you, please contact the email address that deniro has provided, here is a link to the thread at mw which I started on it:
http://www.majorwager.com/fusetalk/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=86422
http://www.majorwager.com/fusetalk/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=86422
