Cool Internet sites

Afro-Cuban Jazz
http://www.rhapsody.com/jazz/latin-world-jazz/afro-cuban-jazz

Panama, as The Crossroads of the World and a place with long-standing cultural ties with New Orleans and New York, is one of the principal centers from which jazz spread through Latin America. Nevertheless, the places that left the most unmistakable Latin imprints on jazz were Brazil and Cuba. Listen to some very cool Afro-Cuban syncopations here.

Arctic Melt by 2013?
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/29025/0/

Global warming has implicit within it a lot of bad news for Panama. This story is about a phenomenon that's going to create strong new competition for the Panama Canal and raise sea levels along both of our coasts.

Aventura --- Mi Corazoncito
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpfshN1wJKU

A music video by the most prominent exponents of bachata, a Dominican musical genre that was born in Santo Domingo's bars and brothels, matured in New York City and is quite popular in Panama.

Is Brazil creating its own regional back yard?
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1720/1/

People who listen too much to the far-right ideologues in Miami may think that the question in Latin America is whether Hugo Chávez is going to take over the region. Well, the Venezuelan president may be outspoken and sometimes outrageous and he may use his country's oil wealth to extend its influence abroad, but the growing regional power and ever more acknowledged seat of the alternative to US hegemony in Latin America is Brazil. For better or worse, this is the insidious political and economic reality that we and our neighbors face.

Murcia revela relación con campañas políticas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl5SMCUTzeA

One of the controversial television interviews with a jailed Colombian --- shall we call him a businessman, a drug money launderer, a pyramid scamster, or innocent until proven guilty (which he has yet to be)? --- who says that he gave $6 million in cash to the PRD campaigns of Balbina Herrera for president and Bobby Velásquez for mayor, and until his falling out with the Torrijos administration had Panama's presidential guards working as his personal bodyguards. Let Balbina's, Bobby's and Martín's denials be duly noted, but stay tuned for more to come out about this story.

Post Panamax ships: how big can they go?
http://info.hktdc.com/shippers/vol24_5/vol24_5_seafr03.htm

Another work of online journalism, about a matter of the utmost importance for Panama's economic future.

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