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Geneva Convention Relative to the

Treatment of Prisoners of War

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm

The Miami courtroom battle over whether General Manuel Antonio Noriega is extradited to France or allowed to return to Panama will revolve around whether this, the Third Geneva Convention, can be construed to require Noriega's repatriation or forbid his extradition to a third country. Because the general has been sick while locked up and he's approaching 70 years of age, there are some who will say that the section on sick POWs requires him to be sent to Panama. Other sections, when interpreted in conjunction with customary international practices that are also part of international law, might be invoked in Noriega's favor. (Really, however, there has never been a case quite like this one.) You also ought to refer to this when considering what international law says about the abuses that are being committed by both sides in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

La Rosa de Los Vientos

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/video/player.php?file=panama

A couple of university professors and a bunch of their students came down to Panama a couple of summers ago, and this is a video compilation of a bunch of the still photos they took, set to the Grammy-winning Rubén Blades cover of the Rómulo Castro song La Rosa de los Vientos.

Panama: the arts

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-41021/Panama

A thumbnail sketch to get you started if you know nothing at all about the arts in this country. If you read Spanish, continue on by subscribing to Lizi Rodríguez's InfoArte guide to things happening in the local arts world by sending an email that says "subscribe" to infoarte@inforarte.dyndns.info. After checking out the people and events that Lizi highlights for awhile, you will begin to realize that neither she nor any other person or institution does anything approaching a complete job of covering the arts scene in this country, but you will also be well enough oriented to explore it for yourself.

The Rise and Fall of Alberto Fujimori

http://www.gci275.com/peru/fujimori.shtml

Since the end of the Pinochet dictatorship, some amazingly reactionary vestiges of the right-wing totalitarian outlook on life have persisted in some of Chile's public institutions. The recent court decision rejecting former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's extradition for a plethora of human rights abuses and financial crimes is an example of this.

Wikipedia: Carlos Lee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Lee

Since during his major league baseball career he hasn't played for a team in one of the cities where the mainstream US television networks are based and hasn't appeared in a World Series, this Panamanian slugger for the Houston Astros has not had the publicity that one might expect for one with his talents and accomplishments. But Carlos Lee is leading the National League in runs batted in again and this page gives you the details of his background and baseball heroics.

Theatre Guild does Tennessee Williams classic "Night of the Iguana"
Cool Internet Sites