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Griffins always were rare...
...but soon you might not be able
to see them anywhere in Panama City. Panama's bus art, something that
pleases many natives and many visitors alike, has been disappearing for
years for economic reasons. Then the Moscoso administration issued a
regulation that buses must by color-coded according to their routes, which
caused a lot of the decorations on buses to be painted over. Now the
Torrijos administration seeks to replace the driver-owned diablos rojos
with a monopoly that uses larger buses which are jointed in the middle to
be able to turn on some of the capital's narrow streets. Unstated, so far,
is whether the Torrijos transit plan contemplates the final abolition of
artwork on city buses. But knowing that his father-in-law founded the ad
cartel, and knowing the present administration's low regard for Panamanian
culture, it wouldn't be the least bit surprising to see the new bus
monopoly abolish the art of bus painting in favor of corporate
advertising. Photo by Eric Jackson
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