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The government has imposed a moratorium on new casino permits, but when it did so this new hotel and casino on Via Veneto was already under construction. Panama's gambling industry has been all but unregulated and uninspected, and has thrived in the poorest city neighborhoods although it was promoted as a tourist-oriented phenomenon when the controls came off. Photo by Eric Jackson