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opinionAlso in this section:
Bernal, Martín's "Fifth Bench" throne room Birns, High profile political murders in Guatemala Jackson, Mitt Romney leads GOP candidate fundraising Sirias, A painful plunge back into English
The reality behind the Supreme Court "Fifth Bench" proposal Martín's throne room by Miguel Antonio Bernal The state of civil liberties in Panama is ever more anachronistic and pathetic. The advertised "New Country" has chosen to once again move toward a more authoritarian state, believing as it does in the exercise of a more and more absolute domination over the populace, which, deficient in democratic means of participation and organization, doesn't react to the trampling and stomping of fundamental guarantees, of democratic freedoms, of human rights. And so we see how "the deputies' supine ignorance" (as it was well characterized by Pedro Sitton Ureta in his March 13 opinion column in El Panama America) motivated them to approve a Penal Code unworthy of a society that saw itself subjected to the generals' will for more than two decades, to the will of the general of the moment and his civiloid acolytes. It was a code that some people thought would be vetoed, forgetting that it was proposed and seconded for a vote and approval by Martín and his team as part of their "historic mission" of good for nothing neo-populism that attempts to impose upon us, with the collaboration of the political party leaderships with with it has its pacts and addenda, as well as with the tacit complicity of those who remain silent or look the other way. Meanwhile, unemployment and poverty compete for first place in growth. Meanwhile, the bodies of the medicine poisoning medicines are exhumed and the lack of medicines, supplies and medical attention at the Social Security Fund, hospitals and health center worsens as Dr. Alleyne goes on a trip to the USA. Meanwhile, Odebrecht --- the company at the center of the scandal that brought down Collor de Melo --- replaces PYCSA in that scam, as crime advances with impunity and leaves as its calling cards promises like those to solve the public transportation chaos. Meanwhile electric rates go up, telephone service is a joke and they're drafting a proposal to turn the public water utility into a "mixed" enterprise. Meanwhile the neo-Zonians who run the ACP color in the ghost of expansion and ANAM patronizes ecological perversions on land, in the sky and in the sea, attempting to silence the cries of the dolphins. Meanwhile those well paid pollsters serve us the first drinks before the next binge of polls that are supposed to make us submit and applaud the "popularity" of the "visionary" Martín and the possible, necessary, demanded, programmed, craved, coveted, sponsored, flaunted (in the order set down by the power brokers, without altering the product) re-election of Martín. There will be no lack of those who say this is unthinkable, that there is no basis for this, that the PRD won't allow it, even that "the Constitution doesn't permit it" --- as if we were confronted by a democratic government that respects its own constitution, which it reformed by way of a pact with the Mireyistas. However, the majority of those who advance one of the preceding arguments prefer to conveniently forget the continental trend toward presidential power and the "missionary" role that Martín I would play. And thus --- not for habeas corpus or constitutional guarantees --- the sorcerers, diviners, witch doctors and pettifoggers move zealously to promote the so-called "Fifth Bench" of the Supreme Court, which, properly speaking, won't be anything more than a new batch of magistrates of, by and for Martín. And thus, for Martín and/or his team to prolong their stay in power certain measures become necessary and we're beginning to hear the notes of another dance of millions like the expansion campaign and all the investment hype. A high court chamber for the ruling pseudoconstitutionalism is the most comfortable way to get around the obstacles so that arbitrary rule will have a mantle of legitimacy and the putative father of the governing regime can calmly return to his lessons, which have not only not been forgotten, but are now being applied by a strutting set of new kids.
Also in this section:
Bernal, Martín's "Fifth Bench" throne room Birns, High profile political murders in Guatemala Jackson, Mitt Romney leads GOP candidate fundraising Sirias, A painful plunge back into English
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