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El Mercadito
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If you are looking to buy cut flowers, medicinal herbs, fresh fruits and vegetables, tobacco leaves to make your own cigars or some very tasty home-made aji chombo sauce, El Mercadito, a little alley off of Avenida Central, is a good place to go shopping. If you go there at night when all the vendors have gone home, this can be a high crime area, but the warnings in some of the guides to visiting or living in Panama are exaggerated. It's a reasonably safe place to go during the day. Photos and caption by Eric Jackson

The upper-end fishing boat business
Blades lashes out at tourism reporting
Will the return of traffic save Avenida Central?

El Mercadito
De facto urban renewal

Competition by vilification and litigation loses ground
Business & Economy Briefs