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Court nabs accomplices while the legislature lets the main suspect walk

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Five years ago Oydén Ortega Durán, the former Supreme Court magistrate, was accused in the bribery scheme in a complaint to the National Assembly’s Credentials Committee. Ortega, who came to prominence out of the PRD ranks, was promptly let off by the Panameñista-dominated committee without any real examination or investigation. But now the elder Ortega’s son, Oydén Ortega Collado, and the ex-magistrate’s secretary, Claudia Purcait (also of a prominent PRD family), have been found guilty of influence trafficking for the same circumstances, in the regular courts. Supreme Court photo.

Ex-magistrate’s secretary and son guilty of selling a court decision

by Eric Jackson

Inflation in the cost of bribery might just ruing the game for everyone who pays it.

A Chiriqui cattle rancher in a property dispute wanted to appeal his case before the Supreme Court. The rancher, César Guillermo Alvarado Taylor, was representing his family company with respect to land that he said was his mothers’, in an argument with a rival company with respect to eight parcels of land. Alvarado was going broke and needed to win this case to stay in business. He got his appeal, lost in the civil chamber, then moved for a reconsideration. That would have in large part been up to magistrate Oydén Ortega Durán. 

Then appeared Oydén Ortega Collado, the magistrate’s son, who offered to get the reconsideration for a $20,000 payment. Alvarado paid, got back into court, and found that if he wanted to WIN that case, it would cost another $250,000. Which he didn’t have. He dropped the litigation, and complained against the elder Ortega.

However, criminal allegations against high court magistrates are not heard in the ordinary courts, but by the National Assembly’s Credentials Committee, and if they progress perhaps by the entire legislature. Since the 1989 US invasion, with few exceptions, there has been a non-aggression pact among the political parties and between the high court and the Credentials Committee. ‘You don’t investigate us, we don’t investigate you. Or if we do, we throw the case out over some technical point.’

Ricardo Martinelli broke that pact with respect to the preceding PRD administration of Martín Torrijos. Martinelli turned the theoretical legislature-appointed comptroller general and attorney general into his personal rubber stamps, and would send his tourism minister, Salo Shamah, around to the high court with orders. Panama’s justice system has limped from scandal to scandal since then, without a definitive break from nor return to the old tacit nonaggression customs.

The Credentials Committee apparently was looking at something “restorative” in 2017, when Alvardo filed his complaint, and 2018, when a Panameñista-dominated committee shelved that complaint without an investigation.

In the ordinary courts, after much delay and at greater personal risk to himself, Alvarado got a better hearing. He had, after all, admitted to the crime of paying a bribe. But he had videotapes of one of the exchanges being made, he recorded some of the WhatsApp conversations, he had records of calls to and from his own phone, and it turned out that the money left a documentary trail that went from the younger Ortega, through his dad’s secretary and to the magistrate himself.

And on the evening of this past March 11, the trial court found Oydén Ortega Collado and Claudia Purcait guilty of influence peddling. Sentencing is set for March 25.

We can only imagine what sorts of appeals and maneuvers will follow that, but the evident trend is that the new female-majority high court has the votes to abandon some old ways. What we don’t have is a good indication that the legislature and its key committee intend any sort of change on their part. To the contrary, actually.

 

 

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Editorials: Putin should end his war; and Drop the charges against Assange

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Russian antiwar protesters gathered in Moscow as the Ukraine war began. Thousands have been jailed, and for as much attention as the Western powers and media are paying to them, they may be just a small sliver of Russian public opinion. If, in the end, this censored and prohibited ragtag movement prevails, that makes Putin look weak and ends his political career. Wikimedia photo, for which nobody wants to take credit and be arrested.

Even if it’s just a war over appearances…

In the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse, the United States promised Russia that it would not expand NATO to the east, but ended up breaking that promise. One thing has led to another, but Ukraine was never in a position to attack Russia or bring in foreign military forces to do so.

Vladimir Putin chose this war, and in so doing he demonstrated his weakness, however the battle goes. He expected the Ukrainians to give up without much of a fight. He expected Russian-speaking Ukrainians to be loyal to Russia instead of Ukraine. He expected the world to accept a Ukrainian fait accompli. None of those things happened and a face-saving exit may not be possible.

The world needs to stand firm. Ukraine’s existence as an independent sovereign nation isn’t negotiable. The politics of big countries bullying and attacking their neighbors isn’t acceptable.

Is it hypocritical for Washington to apply these standards to Moscow? Actually, it is. The solution is not to say that everybody who can get away with it does it, but to adopt a 21st century Good Neighbor Policy. End this war, bind the wounds, and rebuild. Build back better, actually.

There are a bunch of political reputations on the line — Vladimir Putin’s, Volodymyr Zelensky’s, Joe Biden’s, the Putin Republicans’, Boris Johnson’s and so on. Not a one of them is a good reason for somebody to get killed. The best leaders will be those who stick up for important principles, the futures of their nations and the well-being of other people without much thought about their personal careers.

 

Assange is a hero to too much of the Democratic base for Biden to imprison

Yes, there are nasty things that one might truthfully say about Julian Assange. But what did he do to be in so much trouble?

He published a video of US forces attacking a Reuters news crew, killing journalists and others, including nearby children. The US government, confronted discretely by a whistleblower, denied it. When the video was leaked, they lied about it. It was not a mistake in the heat of combat. It was a deliberate attack on non-combatants.

He published a trove of US diplomatic cables, which did not include secret missile launch codes, information about the defenses of key installations or the names of spies. He had offered to consult with the US government to avoid inadvertent publication of such details, but was rebuffed. Those cables laid out, in general, a long-running foreign policy based largely on lies.

In the USA and among US citizens living abroad, and within the branches and agencies o the US government itself, there are broad and diverse movements for peace, for official transparency, for human rights and accountability when these are denied. The people who think this way are far more likely to vote for Democrats than for Republicans.

No doubt some of the alleged Democratic wonks who believe in throwaway people and expendable votes will advise President Biden that antiwar Democrats have no other place to go, that protection of political reputations is the essence of national security and those who blow whistles are traitors, that people acting for the government have right and power to brutalize or kill anybody and are immune from answering for it. So it’s an acceptable and even advisable campaign strategy to offend the Black Lives Matter folks, the peace movement, the pro-transparency groups and the piranha school of journalists in all sorts of media who uphold truth as the first principle.

They have it all arranged. Where else can these people go? They OWE their votes to the Democrats, right?

That sort of thinking, of course, lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump.

Biden should not inject an old bureaucratic fight with Julian Assange into the midterm election campaign. He should just drop the charges and let the Australian muckraker go on his way.

 

                           Hannibal Barca counts the rings of Roman soldiers killed in
                           the Battle of Cannae, 1704 sculpture by Sébastien Slodtz.

                    I will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal                    

Bear in mind…

 

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

 

 

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Dorothy Day

 

 

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

 

 

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Wright, Is there an ethical diplomat in the house?

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Vassily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, briefs reporters on recent developments. United Nations photo by Loehy Felipe.

I resigned my diplomatic post over the US invasion of Iraq. Will any Russian diplomats do the same?

by Ann Wright — Common Dreams

Nineteen years ago, in March 2003, I resigned as a US diplomat in opposition to the President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq. I joined two other US diplomats, Brady Kiesling and John Brown, who had resigned in weeks previous to my resignation. We heard from fellow US diplomats assigned to US embassies around the world that they too believed that the decision of the Bush administration would have long term negative consequences for the United States and the world, but for a variety of reasons, no one joined us in resignation until later. Several initial critics of our resignations later told us they were wrong and they agreed that the decision of the US government to wage war on Iraq was disastrous.

The US decision to invade Iraq using the manufactured threat of weapons of mass destruction and without the authorization of the United Nations was protested by people in virtually every country. Millions were in the streets in capitals around the world before the invasion demanding that their governments not participate in the US “coalition of the willing.”

For the past two decades, Russian President Putin has warned the United States and NATO in stark terms that the international rhetoric of “the doors will not close for the possible entry of Ukraine into NATO” was a threat to the national security of the Russian Federation.

Putin cited the 1990s verbal agreement of the George H.W. Bush administration that following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, NATO would not move “one inch” closer to Russia. NATO would not enlist countries from the former Warsaw Pact alliance with the Soviet Union.

However, under the Clinton administration, the United States and NATO began its “Partnership for Peace” program that morphed into full entrance into NATO of former Warsaw Pact countries — Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, and North Macedonia.

The US and NATO went one step too far for the Russian Federation with the February 2014 overthrow of the elected, but allegedly corrupt, Russia-leaning government of Ukraine, an overthrow that was encouraged and supported by the US government. Fascist militias joined with ordinary Ukrainian citizens who did not like the corruption in their government. But rather than waiting less than one year for the next elections, riots began and hundreds were killed in Maidan Square in Kyiv by snipers from both the government and the militias.

Violence against ethnic Russians spread in other parts of Ukraine and many were killed by fascist mobs on May 2, 2014 in Odessa. The majority ethnic Russians in the eastern provinces of Ukraine began a separatist rebellion citing violence against them, lack of resources from the government and cancellation of teaching of Russian language and history in schools as reasons for their rebellion. While the Ukrainian military has allowed the extreme right-wing neo-Nazi Azov battalion to be a part of military operations against the separatist provinces, the Ukrainian military is not a fascist organization as alleged by the Russian government.

The Azov participation in politics in Ukraine was not successful with their receiving only 2 percent of the vote in the 2019 election, much less than other right-wing political parties have received in elections in other European countries.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is just as wrong in asserting that the Ukrainian President Zelensky heads a fascist government that must be destroyed as my former boss, Secretary of State Colin Powell, was wrong in perpetrating the lie that the Iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction and therefore must destroyed.

The Russian Federation’s annexation of Crimea has been condemned by most of the international community. Crimea was under a special agreement between the Russian Federation and the Ukrainian government in which Russian soldiers and ships were assigned in Crimea to provide the Russian Southern Fleet access to the Black Sea, the Federation’s military outlet to the Mediterranean Sea. In March 2014, after eight years of discussions and polling of whether the residents of Crimea wanted to remain as with Ukraine, ethnic Russians (77% of the population of Crimea were Russian speaking) and the remaining Tatar population held a plebiscite in Crimea and voted to ask the Russian Federation to be annexed. 83 percent of the voters in Crimea turned out to vote and 97 percent voted for integration into the Russian Federation. The results of the plebiscite were accepted and implemented by the Russian Federation without a shot being fired. However, the international community applied strong sanctions against Russia and special sanctions against Crimea that destroyed its international tourism industry of hosting tourist ships from Turkey and other Mediterranean countries.

In the next eight years from 2014 to 2022, over 14,000 persons were killed in the separatist movement in the Donbass region. President Putin continued to warn the United States and NATO that Ukraine being annexed into the NATO sphere would be a threat to the national security of the Russian Federation. He also warned NATO about the increasing number of military war games conducted on the Russian border including in 2016 a very large war maneuver with the ominous name of “Anaconda,” the large snake that kills by wrapping around suffocating its prey, an analogy not lost on the Russian government. New US/NATO bases that were constructed in Poland and location of missile batteries in Romania added to the Russian government’s concern about its own national security.

In late 2021 with the United States and NATO dismissing the Russian government’s concern for its national security, they again stated the “door was never closed to entry into NATO” where upon the Russian Federation responded with a build-up of 125,000 military forces around Ukraine. President Putin and long-standing Russian Federation Foreign Minister Lavrov kept telling the world that this was a large-scale training exercise, similar to military exercises that NATO and the United States had conducted along its borders.

However, in a lengthy and wide-ranging televised statement on February 21, 2022, President Putin laid out a historic vison for the Russian Federation including the recognition of the separatist provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk in the Donbass region as independent entities and declared them allies. Only hours later, President Putin ordered a Russian military invasion of Ukraine.

Acknowledgement of the events of the past eight years, does not absolve a government of its violation of international law when it invades a sovereign country, destroys infrastructure and kills thousands of its citizens in the name of the national security of the invading government.

This is exactly the reason I resigned from the US government nineteen years ago when the Bush administration used the lie of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as a threat to US national security and the basis for invading and occupying Iraq for almost a decade, destroying large amounts of infrastructure and killing tens of thousands of Iraqis.

I didn’t resign because I hated my country. I resigned because I thought the decisions being made by elected politicians serving in government were not in the best interests of my country, or the people of Iraq, or the world.

Resignation from one’s government in opposition to a decision for war made by one’s superiors in the government is a huge decision, particularly with what Russian citizens — much less Russian diplomats — face with the Russian government criminalizing use of the word “war,” arresting of thousands protesters on the streets, and shutting down independent media outlets.

With Russian diplomats serving in over 100 Russian Federation embassies all over the world, I know they are watching international news sources and have much more information about the brutal war on the people of the Ukraine than their colleagues at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, much less the average Russian, now that international media has been taken off the air and internet sites disabled.

For those Russian diplomats, a decision to resign from the Russian diplomatic corps would result in much more severe consequences and most certainly would be much more dangerous than what I faced in my resignation in opposition to the US war on Iraq.

However, from my own experience, I can tell those Russian diplomats that a heavy load will be lifted from their consciences once they make the decision to resign. While they will be ostracized by many of their former diplomatic colleagues, as I found, many more will quietly approve of their courage to resign and face the consequences of the loss of the career that they worked so diligently to create.

Should some Russian diplomats resign, there are organizations and groups in virtually every country where there is a Russian Federation embassy that I think will provide them with aid and assistance as they embark on a new chapter of their lives without the diplomatic corps.

They are facing a momentous decision.

And, if they resign, their voices of conscience, their voices of dissent, will probably be the most important legacy of their lives.

Ann Wright is a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves veteran who retired as a Colonel and a former US diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. She served in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia and Mongolia. In December 2001 she was on the small team that reopened the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is the co-author of the book “Dissent: Voices of Conscience.”

 

 

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Bernal, Making good citizens

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Citizenship training

by Miguel Antonio Bernal V.

Our public universities have been the first to abandon their mission of being guides in the process of educating citizens.

The maelstrom of education in our country demands a civic reaction. However, this does not happen. The authorities are determined to cultivate ignorance.

Given this, it is urgent that we insist on the need for decisive action to train citizens for democratization and the full exercise of civic virtues. This is unfortunately absent today from educational programs at all levels.

It is not possible to speak of democracy if there is no education of citizens that has that objective. We have been induces to forget that education is the introduction to democratization. People with interests in doing so promote ignorance so that they ca profit with impunity from corruption. These days such militant ignorance is promoted and revered by a joint criminal enterprise that governs and its greatest accomplice, the partisan political system as we know it.

The political education of citizens, Amy Guttman points out, should have primacy over other objectives of public education because it “prepares citizens to participate in consciously reproducing their society, and conscious social reproduction is the ideal not only of democratic education but also of democratic politics.”

It is urgent to awaken the interest of all students, and all citizens in public affairs. That includes the practices, values and institutions of democracy. It is urgent to have citizen control mechanisms to avoid exaggerated irrationality in the exercise of political power.

Public universities have been the first to abandon their mission of being a guide in the objectives of citizen education. Today, they favor bureaucracy, nepotism, patronage and opportunism, as the recent revelations about UNACHI show.

The opponents of constitutionalism as a freedom strategy – although they deny this –cling to a parallel process that would close the doors to change. But it’s a brand new constitution, wrought in a process that the present in-crowd does not control, that would open the way for the democratizing transformation that our society and institutions require.

The same ones who have chosen to be fugitives from a Constituent Assembly are also the ones who block civic education. It’s time to separate the wheat from the chaff. It’s time to exercise our power as citizens. Let’s do that with the dignity and determination that these times require of us.

 

 

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Boric, Discurso inaugural

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Primer discurso en el Palacio de La Moneda del Presidente Gabriel Boric Font

Chilenas y chilenos, habitantes de nuestra patria, pueblo de Chile:

Esta tarde, por primera vez, les hablo como Presidente de la República, Presidente de todas y todos los que habitamos este país que tanto queremos y cuánto queremos a Chile, que ha sufrido tanto y qué tantas alegrías nos ha dado.

Gracias infinitas por darme este honor a ustedes, a quienes nos están viendo en sus casas a lo largo y ancho de todo nuestro país. También, a mi familia incondicional, a nuestro Gabinete, nuestros equipos y, también, personalmente a Irina.

Este Chile hecho de diversos pueblos y naciones, instalado en una cornisa del continente entre las cordilleras imponentes y su océano mágico, entre el desierto de vida y los hielos antárticos, enriquecido y transformado por el trabajo de su pueblo.

Es este Chile que solo en un puñado de años, y ustedes lo han vivido, ha debido atravesar terremotos, catástrofes, crisis, convulsiones y una pandemia mundial y violaciones a los derechos humanos que nunca más se repetirán en nuestro país. Pero en el que siempre, siempre nos sacudimos el polvo, nos secamos las lágrimas, ensayamos juntos una sonrisa, nos arremangamos y seguimos, chilenas y chilenos, siempre seguimos.

La emoción qué he sentido hoy día al atravesar la Plaza de la Constitución y entrar a este Palacio de La Moneda, es profunda y necesito, existencialmente necesito compartirla con ustedes. Son parte protagónica de este proceso, el pueblo de Chile es protagónico en este proceso, no estaríamos aquí sin las movilizaciones de ustedes.

Y quiero que sepan que no llegamos aquí solo para llenar cargos y solazarnos entre nosotros, para generar distancias inalcanzables, llegamos aquí para entregarnos en cuerpo y alma al compromiso de hacer mejor la vida en nuestra patria.

Quiero decirles, compatriotas, que he visto sus caras recorriendo nuestro país, las de las personas mayores cuya pensión no les alcanza para vivir porque algunos decidieron hacer de la previsión un negocio.

Las de quienes se enferman y sus familias no tienen cómo costearle los tratamientos. Cuántos de ustedes nos han hablado, nos hemos mirado a los ojos.

Las de los estudiantes endeudados, las de las y los campesinos sin agua por sequía y por saqueo.

Las de las mujeres que cuidan a sus niños con TEA que en cada lugar de Chile me las encuentro. A sus familiares postrados, a sus bebés indefensos.

Las de las familias que siguen buscando a sus detenidos desaparecidos qué no dejaremos de buscar.

Las de las disidencias y diversidades de género que han sido discriminadas y excluidas por tanto tiempo.

Las de los artistas que no pueden vivir de su trabajo porque la cultura no es lo suficientemente valorada en nuestro país.

Las de las dirigentas sociales que luchan por el derecho a una vivienda digna en las poblaciones de Chile.

Las de los pueblos originarios despojados de su tierra, pero nunca, nunca de su historia.

Las de la clase media acogotada, las de los niños y niñas del Sename, nunca más, nunca más, las caras de las zonas más aisladas de nuestro país como el Magallanes de dónde vengo, las de quiénes viven en la pobreza olvidada.

Con ustedes es nuestro compromiso.

Hoy iniciamos un período de grandes desafíos, de inmensa responsabilidad, pero no partimos de cero, no partimos de cero. Chile tiene una larga historia y hoy día este día nos inserta en esa historia larga de nuestra República.

Iniciar mi mandato como Presidente Constitucional de la República de Chile es hacerme parte, hacernos parte de una historia que nos excede a todos, pero que al mismo tiempo le da forma, le da sentido y dirección a nuestra mirada.

Por aquí pasaron antes que nosotros miles de personas que hicieron posible la expansión de la educación pública, el reconocimiento progresivo de los derechos de las mujeres y las disidencias en el país y en la casa, la democratización del país, el reconocimiento de los derechos sociales.

Por aquí, en este lugar desde donde hoy les hablo, pasó Balmaceda y su dignidad chilena, Pedro Aguirre Cerda y su “gobernar es educar” citando a Valentín Letelier.

Por acá pasó también Eduardo Frei Montalva y la promoción popular, el compañero Salvador Allende y la nacionalización del Cobre, Patricio Aylwin y la recuperación de la democracia, Michelle Bachelet abriendo caminos inexplorados con la protección social.

Aquí se escuchan también los ecos de quienes anónimamente se han levantado contra la opresión, defendiendo los derechos humanos, exigiendo verdad, justicia, reparación y garantías de no repetición.

Por acá resuena el clamor feminista y su lucha por la igualdad.

Y algunos se acordarán también de las 1.800 horas corriendo alrededor de La Moneda por la educación.

Pero estas paredes también han sido testigos del horror de un pasado de violencia y opresión que no hemos olvidado y no olvidaremos. Por donde hablamos hoy, ayer entraban cohetes y eso nunca más se puede volver a repetir en nuestra historia.

Este Palacio, esta Plaza, esta ciudad, este país tienen historia y a esa historia también nos debemos. Hoy, en esta jornada tan importante en el difícil, difícil camino de los cambios que la ciudadanía decidió echar a andar en unidad, repito, importante, en unidad, vienen a mi mente y a mi corazón los días en que, junto a muchos de los aquí presentes, y seguramente quienes nos están viendo en sus casas también, marchábamos juntos por un futuro digno.

¿Hacia dónde marchábamos, compatriotas? ¿hacia dónde marchábamos?

No va a ser este Gobierno el fin de esa marcha, vamos a seguir andando y el camino, sin duda, va a ser largo y difícil, pero hoy los sueños de millones de personas están acá empujándonos, dándonos sentido para llevar a buen puerto los cambios que la sociedad demanda.

Chilenas y chilenos:

Mi sueño es que cuando terminemos nuestro mandato, y hablo en plural porque esto no es algo individual, esto no se trata de mí, esto se trata del mandato que el pueblo nos diera a este proyecto colectivo, cuando terminemos este mandato podamos mirar a nuestros hijos, a nuestras hermanas, a nuestros padres, a nuestras vecinas, a nuestros abuelos y sintamos que hay un país que nos protege, que nos acoge, que nos cuida, que garantiza derechos y retribuye con justicia el aporte y el sacrificio que cada uno de ustedes, de los habitantes de nuestra patria, hacen para el desarrollo de nuestra sociedad.

Quisiera, compatriotas y en los ejemplos uno siempre se queda corto, pero quisiera, compatriotas, qué la gente de Puchuncaví y de Coronel puedan mirar hacia el futuro y saber que sus hijos no van a crecer rodeados de contaminación, algo tan básico.

Que la gente, los trabajadores de Lota no van a seguir viviendo en la pobreza.

Que las comunidades de algueras y pescadores artesanales de la provincia de Cardenal Caro podrán seguir desarrollando sus actividades tradicionales.

Que los niños y niñas de Alto Hospicio, allá arriba, sepan que ellos también van a poder acceder a una vivienda digna.

Que los vecinos y vecinas de Antofagasta, de Maipú, de Hualpén sientan tranquilidad al volver de sus trabajos y tengan tiempo para vivir junto a sus familias. Por eso impulsaremos, como hemos comprometido, las 40 horas.

Que los jóvenes de Juan Fernández, ese lugar aislado, insular van a poder tener un colegio digno para estudiar.

Sabemos, compatriotas, que el cumplimiento de nuestras metas no será fácil, que enfrentaremos crisis externas e internas, que cometeremos errores y que esos errores los deberemos enmendar con humildad, escuchando siempre a quienes piensan distinto y apoyándonos en el pueblo de Chile.

Quiero decirles que vamos a vivir tiempos desafiantes y tremendamente complejos. La pandemia sigue su curso, con un saldo de dolor y pérdida de vidas que nos va a acompañar por mucho tiempo, seguramente todos ustedes conocen a alguien que ha partido producto de la pandemia.

Pensemos, pensemos por un segundo, por un segundo en quiénes se han ido y quienes nos han dejado, pensemos en el dolor que tiene cada familia en su intimidad por quién ha partido y no volverá. Tenemos que abrazarnos como sociedad, volver a querernos, volver a sonreír, esto más allá de discursos y más allá de lo que está escrito, qué importante, qué diferente es cuando en un pueblo nos queremos, nos cuidamos entre nosotros, no desconfiamos el uno del otro, sino que nosapoyamos. Le preguntamos a nuestro vecino cómo ésta, apoyamos al trabajador de al lado, nos queremos, salimos adelante juntos y juntas. Eso es lo que tenemos que construir, compatriotas.

Sabemos también que la economía sigue resentida y que el país necesita ponerse de pie, crecer y repartir de manera justa los frutos de este crecimiento, porque cuando no hay distribución de la riqueza, cuando la riqueza se concentra solo en unos pocos, la paga es muy difícil. Necesitamos redistribuir la riqueza que producen los chilenos y chilenas, que producen quiénes habitan nuestra patria.

Sabemos que a todas estas dificultades se suma, además, un contexto internacional marcado por la violencia en muchos lugares del mundo y hoy también por la guerra. Y en esto quiero ser muy claro, Chile, nuestro país, promoverá siempre el respeto de los Derechos Humanos, en todo lugar y sin importar el color del gobierno que los vulnere.

Desde Chile, en nuestra América Latina, porque somos profundamente latinoamericanos y basta de mirar con distancia a nuestros países vecinos, somos profundamente latinoamericanos y un saludo a nuestros pueblos hermanos, desde aquí, desde este continente haremos esfuerzos para que la voz del sur se vuelva a escuchar firme en un mundo cambiante.

Son tantos los desafíos, la emergencia climática, los procesos migratorios, la globalización económica, la crisis energética, la violencia permanente contra las mujeres y disidencias. Tenemos que trabajar juntos con nuestros pueblos hermanos, como lo conversábamos hoy día con Presidentes de otros países. Nunca más mirarnos en menos, nunca más mirarnos con desconfianza, trabajemos juntos en América Latina para salir adelante juntos.

Practicaremos, compatriotas, la autonomía política a nivel internacional, sin subordinarnos nunca a ninguna potencia y cautelando siempre la coordinación y cooperación entre los pueblos.

Quiero que sepan que, como Presidente de Chile y nuestro Gabinete, nuestros equipos no le haremos el quite a los problemas, vamos a explicar, vamos a hablar con ustedes para contarles el porqué de nuestras decisiones para que sean parte, también, de las soluciones. Y eso requiere, también, cambiar de alguna forma la relación que se tiene con las autoridades, las autoridades no pueden ser inalcanzables; queremos ministros en terreno, en la calle, estando con el pueblo. Queremos no hacer visitas a las regiones que sean solamente de un par de horas para inaugurar una obra y chao. Escuchar, no estar escondidos.

Y, para eso, es importante que también haya reciprocidad y a qué me refiero con eso, que la relación con las autoridades no sea una de consumidores, que trabajemos juntos, que seamos ciudadanos y que este sea el Gobierno del pueblo y ustedes lo sientan como su Gobierno, de todas y todos los chilenos y chilenas.

Y para eso nos vamos a necesitar todos, Gobierno y Oposición, instituciones y sociedad civil, movimientos sociales. Nuestro Gobierno, cuya base política es Apruebo Dignidad y, también, un saludo a nuestros compañeros que han trabajado tanto por esto y, también, los partidos de Convergencia Progresista.

Quiero que sepan que no se agota, este Gobierno no se agota en sus adherentes. Seré el Presidente de todos los chilenos y chilenas y escucharé siempre las críticas constructivas y las propuestas de quienes piensan distinto a nosotros, los que siempre, siempre tendrán garantizada la libertad y el derecho de disentir.

Como he dicho más una vez, citando palabras nacidas al calor de las movilizaciones en un colegio tomado en una población, lejos, en una región perdida, porque de las movilizaciones venimos; hoy día estamos acá, pero no nos olvidamos de dónde venimos.

Vamos lento porque vamos lejos, vamos lento porque vamos lejos y no vamos solos, sino que con todos ustedes, hombres, mujeres, niños y niñas que nos acompañan hoy en esta plaza, a través de sus pantallas en sus casas, quizás, en el celular, en la micro, de donde sea que nos estén viendo o en el extranjero quienes también nos están siguiendo y añoran a su Chile querido porque es central, como he repetido varias veces en este discurso, que ustedes se hagan parte de este proceso porque no podemos hacerlo solos.

Desde este lugar quiero hacerles a todas y a todos, un llamado, que nos acompañemos en esta tarea. Caminemos juntos la ruta de la esperanza y construyamos todos el cambio hacia un país que sea digno y justo. Dignidad, qué palabra tan linda. Lo construiremos paso a paso con la sabiduría de quien sabe que los cambios que duran son los que tienen sustento en el conocimiento acumulado y que son respaldados por grandes mayorías.

Pondremos especial atención, cómo he señalado, a los efectos que la pandemia ha tenido sobre el sistema de salud, sobre los trabajadores y trabajadoras que nos han protegido y cuidado, sobre las listas de espera que tanta angustia generan en las familias.

Vamos a continuar, también, la exitosa estrategia de vacunación del pasado Gobierno colocando siempre la salud de las personas como prioridad primera y también implementaremos una estrategia específica para atender las consecuencias de la salud mental porque la salud mental también importa chilenos y chilenas.

Nos vamos a preocupar, específicamente, por la educación donde ha habido una brecha gigante producto de la obligación de cerrar las escuelas. Tenemos que volver a abrir las escuelas para que nuestros niños y niñas vuelvan a encontrarse generando, por cierto, todas las condiciones de seguridad para que ello sea posible.

Vamos a implementar, con mucha energía, la consolidación de nuestra economía, recuperar nuestra economía sin reproducir sus desigualdades estructurales. Un crecimiento que sea sustentable, nunca más zonas de sacrificio; el Estado también es responsable.

Queremos que las pequeñas y medianas empresas que generan valor vuelvan a crecer, queremos terminar con los abusos que tan injustamente, que tan justamente han indignado a nuestro pueblo y queremos volver a generar, en conjunto, dándole seguimiento a las buenas ideas de antes; empleo digno.

Reconocemos también que millones de chilenos y chilenas viven hoy día con temor. No podemos mirar para el lado ante eso y vamos a enfrentar el problema de la delincuencia enfrentando la desigualdad social que es su origen y también con una reforma las policías que asegure presencia en los lugares donde más se necesita, que aumente la efectividad de la investigación y que se concentre en las organizaciones criminales y de narcos que destruyen nuestros barrios.

Les doy un mensaje a quienes han hecho de la delincuencia algo común y que creen que pueden vivir en la impunidad. No quiero frases grandilocuentes, quiero decirles que los vamos a enfrentar con la comunidad.

Y quiero decir, también, que necesitamos reparar las heridas que quedaron del estallido social. Y, por eso, el día de ayer hemos retirado las querellas por Ley de Seguridad Interior del Estado porque tenemos la convicción de que como chilenos y chilenas tenemos que volver a encontrarnos y vamos a trabajar, vamos a trabajar intensamente en aquello; lo hemos conversado con los familiares de los presos, saben que estamos en ello.

Sabemos, también, compatriotas que enfrentaremos grandes desafíos en el Norte y en el Sur. En el Norte por la crisis migratoria donde vamos a retomar el control de nuestras fronteras y trabajaremos juntos nuestros países hermanos para abordar de manera colectiva las dificultades que conlleva el éxodo de miles de seres humanos, no nos olvidemos nunca que somos seres humanos, por favor.

Quiero decirle a la gente de Colchane, a la gente de Iquique, de Antofagasta, de San Pedro que no van a estar solos, a la gente de Arica, por cierto.

Quiero también decir que en el Sur tenemos un problema. El conflicto que no es como antes se hablaba de la pacificación de la Araucanía, que termino más burdo e injusto. Después algunos decían el conflicto mapuche, no señores, no es el conflicto mapuche, es el conflicto entre el Estado chileno y un pueblo que tiene derecho a existir. Y allí la solución no es ni será la violencia.

Trabajaremos incansablemente por reconstruir las confianzas después de tantas décadas, después de tantas décadas de abuso y de despojo. El reconocimiento a existir de un pueblo, con todo lo que eso implica, será nuestro objetivo y el camino será el diálogo, la paz, el derecho y la empatía con todas las víctimas, sí, con todas las víctimas. Cultivemos, cultivemos la reciprocidad, no nos veamos como enemigos, tenemos que volver a encontrarnos.

En este primer año de Gobierno también nos hemos impuesto como tarea acompañar de manera entusiasta nuestro proceso constituyente por el que tanto hemos luchado. Vamos a apoyar decididamente, decididamente el trabajo de la Convención. Necesitamos una Constitución que nos una, que sintamos como propia, una Constitución que, a diferencia de la que fue impuesta a sangre, fuego y fraudes por la dictadura, nazca en democracia, de manera paritaria, con participación de los pueblos indígenas, una Constitución que sea para el presente y para el futuro, una Constitución que sea para todos y no para unos pocos.

Los invito a que nos escuchemos de buena fe, sin caricaturas, sin caricaturas, tomémonoslo en serio, de todos los bandos. Nos lo digo a nosotros mismos también, escuchemos de buena fe, sin caricaturas para que el plebiscito de salida sea un punto de encuentro y no de división y podamos aquí, junto al pueblo, firmar por primera vez en la historia de Chile una Constitución, democrática, paritaria, con participación de todas y todos nuestros pueblos.

Chilenas y chilenos:

El mundo nos está mirando. Quiero decirles chilenos y chilenas que el pueblo nos está mirando, el mundo nos está mirando y estoy seguro de que también ven con complicidad lo que está pasando en Chile.

Tenemos la oportunidad de ir aportando humildemente a la construcción de una sociedad más justa y estoy seguro que vamos a estar a la altura de este proceso democrático que fue decidido por una inmensa mayoría ciudadana, repliquemos ese resultado.

Queridos habitantes de nuestra tierra:

Asumo hoy con humildad, con conciencia de las dificultades el mandato que ustedes me han confiado, lo hago también con la convicción de que solo en la construcción colectiva de una sociedad más digna podremos fundar una vida mejor para todos y todas. En Chile no sobra nadie, la democracia la construimos juntos y la vida que soñamos solo pueden nacer de la convivencia, el diálogo, la democracia, la colaboración y no la exclusión.

Sé que en 4 años más el pueblo de Chile nos juzgará por nuestras obras y no por nuestras palabras y que, como decía un viejo poeta, el adjetivo cuando no da vida, mata. Hoy era necesario hablar, mañana todos juntos a trabajar.

Como pronosticara hace casi 50 años Salvador Allende, estamos de nuevo, compatriotas, abriendo las grandes alamedas por donde pase el hombre libre, el hombre y la mujer libre, para construir una sociedad mejor.

Seguimos. ¡Viva Chile!

 

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Hauter, End the Oil Age to end wars over fossil fuels

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The Samara City, moored at the Astrakhan Seaport. The port, located on the lower part of the Volga River, is an important terminal along the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC). Photo by Erik Romanenko — TASS via Getty Images.

To help end this war — and prevent the
next one — we must ditch fossil fuels

by Wenonah Hauter — Food & Water Action / Common Dreams

Amid the mounting crisis in Ukraine, fossil fuel giants and an array of political leaders are using the guise of “global security” to promote an agenda that strengthens the dominance of dirty energy for decades to come.

The industry and their Congressional allies have responded by rehashing inaccurate complaints that President Biden is refusing to open up more land to drilling and fracking. Other voices are chiming in to say we should expedite the increased flow of fracked gas to European countries as they attempt to move off of Russian gas. And the White House, in response to bipartisan efforts in Congress, announced a ban on Russian oil imports.

Increasing fossil fuel production will not make the world safer, or provide any short-term relief for families struggling to pay sky-high energy or gas bills; it will only exacerbate the already rapidly escalating climate crisis. To enhance domestic, European, and global security, it’s time to aggressively promote energy efficiency and conservation while quickly deploying renewable energy and moving off fossil fuels.

The threats from climate chaos are well-known by now; we just received another dire warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The scientific panel’s report, in the words of its chair Hoesung Lee, laid out how “climate change is a grave and mounting threat to our wellbeing and a healthy planet.”

The report explained in great detail the impact our fossil fuel-based economy is having on the environment and people living in it, from loss of biodiversity to acute food insecurity for millions of people.

In this context, calls for increasing fossil fuel production to address the immediate situation in Europe make little sense. This would not provide an effective short-term solution; oil rigs cannot immediately start pumping, and gas export facilities take years to complete. The real point of some of this pressure is to fulfill the long-term plans of the dirty energy industry by bolstering its position in the global energy market for decades to come. This would speed an already rapidly unfolding climate disaster of unprecedented proportions.

As a practical matter, the United States, even if it wanted to, does not currently have the capacity to meet anything close to Europe’s energy needs. Though the gas industry is already making plans to massively expand its footprint, mostly on the Gulf Coast. Already planned facilities will increase fracking in this country, creating local air and pollution threats and increasing climate pollution.

The best way to address dependence on fossil fuels is to move off of them rapidly. Both the United States and Europe must invest significant funds in energy efficiency and conservation while at the same time building renewable energy. Not only will this approach result in greater energy independence, it will also help resolve the climate crisis rather than exacerbating it.

This would be a far more cost-effective solution.

Investing $500 billion in energy efficiency, for example, would save climate emissions equivalent to nearly 80 coal power plants, while at the same time creating over a million jobs and saving consumers over $300 a year on their energy bills. Solar and wind energy production are already less expensive than fossil fuels, and as oil, gasoline, and natural gas prices have risen due to a range of factors—from war to corporate greed—solar and wind prices have remained stable.

The fossil fuel industry is quite openly viewing the war as a business opportunity. One Italian fossil fuel executive touted the benefits of increased liquified natural gas deliveries to Europe by saying, “If we react to the current crisis with a warlike reaction, we can do a lot in six months.” This is revealing—and harrowing at the same time. Making the world more dependent on volatile international energy markets is not a solution, it is an invitation to further crises. Imagine promoting energy efficiency, conservation, and renewables with such intensity! Instead of doubling down on fossil fuel production, we must embrace these common sense solutions while we pursue swift reductions in fossil fuel extraction and consumption.

Many elected leaders, from President Biden on down, call the climate crisis an existential threat to humanity. Their actions do not reflect that. The White House is seeking to say everything all at once—calling on oil companies to ramp up production while simultaneously pledging to end the fossil fuel era. Rather than approving more oil and gas projects, our national leaders should embrace an all hands on deck approach to moving the United States, Europe, and the rest of the world off fossil fuels. Not only would this make short-term sense, it is the only way to avoid even worse climate-driven disasters and wars in the future.

 

Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Action. She has worked extensively on energy, food, water and environmental issues at the national, state and local level. Experienced in developing policy positions and legislative strategies, she is also a skilled and accomplished organizer, having lobbied and developed grassroots field strategy and action plans.

 

 

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¿Wappin? Conciencia cuando la necesitamos / Conscience when we need it

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Prince of the weirdos
Prince. Graphic by Johnny Silvercloud.

A Friday recharge
Una recarga de viernes 

Bob Marley – Three Little Birds
https://youtu.be/rBDNKFo_nhI

Aisha & Mad Professor – Creator
https://youtu.be/m8CMinoLkq4

Mark Anthony – Nada de Nada
https://youtu.be/bUab_Wn2qCM

Fugees – Killing Me Softly With His Song
https://youtu.be/oKOtzIo-uYw

La India – Seduceme
https://youtu.be/aWHjKKph9Jc

The Pretenders — I’ll Stand By You
https://youtu.be/vKl7DrQj9ig

Lord Cobra y los Pana Afros – Down the River
https://youtu.be/dqjb-ISo5qs

Mon Laferte & Enrique Bunbury – Mi Buen Amor
https://youtu.be/13m9v78uNJk

Prince – Raspberry Beret
https://youtu.be/l7vRSu_wsNc

Natalia Lafourcade – Soledad y El Mar
https://youtu.be/yAxu-KWKoOg

Sting – Russians
https://youtu.be/r5qhS9Ic96A

Séptima Raíz – Conciencia
https://youtu.be/w3jN4WOZOfg

Yasmin Williams – Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
https://youtu.be/nKDoVuG7uZ0

 

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MEDUCA rehabs an old corregiduria

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Makeover in progress
The switch from corregidores to justices of the peace was and is a controversial experiment with mixed results. In some ways it’s just a budget cut, wherein people in places like Juan Diaz de Anton in Cocle province lose the presence of the justice system in the neighborhood and have to go into town. But that left this building empty, among other things. In the runup to the last elections it was being painted with school colors and we were told it would be an annex to the local elementary school. Perhaps part of that was right. Only after several years’ vacancy, we now see some work underway. The editor, who lives nearby, went with his camera to check it out.

The rescue of a public space

photos and comments by Eric Jackson

The old corregiduria hasn’t been used inside for years. The last public use of it was during the Varela administration, by the Instituto de Mercadeo Agropecuario (IMA), a subsidized government food marketing program that from time to time — notably but not exclusively during the Varela years — generated allegations of pilferage by its functionaries. It was still a good way to get fresh vegetables and other staples without having to go into town. In Martinelli times the building was home to the more ambitious and less reputable Jumbo stores that the IMA ran at the time.

The last signs that this was in public use were in the run-up to the 2019 elections, when a local crew began to paint the outer walls blue and white — school colors — and a fence was put up around the building, which had been broken into and in back of which some of the local drunks would sometimes congregate. I was told it would be an expansion of the elementary school down the road, but after the election there was nothing more heard about it. I figured it was just a campaign promise.

Now, about three years from the last activity, things stir again.

A lady wearing a paint-spattered rector t-shirt told me that yes, the Ministry of Education (MEDUCA) is moving in, but no, it would not be additional classrooms for the elementary school. There would be testing and evaluations of young students there, perhaps child and even adult nutritional programs, and other activities that lend themselves to a well educated community that are not regular classroom instruction as such. 

We have diverse such needs. There are kids coming into the school system with learning disabilities due to malnutrition in the womb or in early childhood here. Continuing education for girls who leave school to give birth to babies is another community problem. When school was online there was this big Internet connectivity problem, but there were also a lot of parents and guardians who had not finished their secondary educations and were little able to assist children trying to learn in a home environment.

So let’s see what MEDUCA will do with our decrepit old community hall of justice and fresh vegetables.

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First, out back, clean up after the winos. As in give them a gesture to go drink elsewhere.

 

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In the back, patching an old hole in one window, and barring the windows on a new addition.

 

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Stumps, vegetation and an old privy are being removed — and burned. It may not be the environmentally best way to proceed, but it does fit the neighborhood practices. In any case the holes where once there were trees, and once there was an old-fashioned toilet, need to be properly filled.

 

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Starting to spackle and paint the sides now, and redo some of the windows. I think that the paint job, here and in the front, might just be the primer. One community factor that is not an issue yet this year but has been in the past is that just off of the right end of this photo there is a water spigot, now fenced in, that was a major supply when a nearby street had an eight-month water outage. That’s not the only feasible solution, of course, but it was when the water was out and the local government officials were not showing themselves.
 

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The Panama News blog links, March 10, 2022

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The Panama News blog links

a bilingual Panama-centric selection of other people’s work
una selección bilingüe Panamá-céntrica de las obras de otras personas
If you are not bilingual Google Translate usually works
Si no eres bilingüe, el traductor de Google generalmente funciona

Canal, Maritime & Transport / Canal, Marítima & Transporte

Lloyd’s List, Sanctions will affect supply chains beyond conflict region

Reuters, China tests freedom of navigation with partial sea closure

Seatrade, Filipino seafarers start arriving home from Ukraine

Mundo, Aumento de precio del búnker y transporte

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Economy / Economía

Metro Libre, Un consorcio coreano hará el túnel de Línea 3 del Metro

TVN, Aumento en precios de cereales por guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania

Stiglitz & Weisbrot, The IMF’s agreement with Argentina could be a game changer

Investor Place, Meta stock cratered over 38% based on a less than 1% drop in DAUs

ICIJ, The Russia Archive: the offshore wealth of powerful Russians

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Science & Technology / Ciencia & Tecnología

ZME Science, Researchers sequence the potato’s entire genome for the first time

Metro Libre, Europeo investigará uso de software espía Pegasus

The Record, Inside Conti leaks: The Panama Papers of ransomware

Georgia Tech, New study finds COVID alters gray matter volume in the brain

TVN, Sáez Llorens: ¿El fin de la pandemia a mediados de año?

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News / Noticias

AP, Niños panameños regresan a las aulas tras dos años de ausencia

EFE, Mujeres en Panamá marchan por la protección de las niñas

Reuters, Cubans protest in Havana as Panama tightens visa requirements

El País, Venezuela releases US prisoners after meeting with White House officials

The Costa Rica News, UN treaty on plastic waste is in the works

Business Insider, Russian steel billionaire calls Ukraine invasion a “huge tragedy”

Newsweek, Russian Orthodox leader blames invasion on Ukraine’s ‘gay pride’

ABC, Proud Boys leader charged in Capitol attack

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Opinion / Opiniones

Litt, What democracy’s advocates can learn from Ukrainians

Greenwald, Victoria Nuland’s confession

Remezcla, What Latin American leaders say about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Turner, No a la violencia y acoso en el trabajo y centros educativos

Garibaldo, Un nuevo inicio de clases

Guevara Mann, Todos somos Ucranianos

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Culture / Cultura

Metro Libre, ¡La sonera de Panamá triunfa en la música!

Com!c Sands, Texas students heckle anti-trans GOP candidate

The Ring, The best I faced: Anselmo Moreno

Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax & Leonidas Kavakos, Ukrainian national anthem

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Margaret Atwood, at a demonstration in Toronto.
 

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Lo mejor del teatro panameño

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Siempre era noche

Teatro panameño en el Festival Internacional De Artes Escénicas

por Roberto Enrique King – FAE

La oferta nacional en el 11° FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE ARTES ESCÉNICAS (FAE 2022), que se realizará en abril próximo, estará impecablemente representada con la puesta en escena de seis obras de teatro que se suman a este extraordinario encuentro internacional artístico de carácter anual, que vuelve este año a la presencialidad con el propósito fundamental de impulsar la reactivación económica, el fortalecimiento de la cultura y contribuir a la salud mental y espiritual de nuestro público, con los auspicios principales de Micultura. Iberescena y Alcaldía de Panamá.

La franja horaria de representaciones panameñas será a las 6 p m todos los días y se inicia el martes 5 en el Teatro Anita Villalaz, con el monólogo CORAZÓN DELATOR – obra original de Edgar Allan Poe – a cargo del actor y director, Abdiel Tapia. Inmediatamente después y en el mismo escenario, se presentará la actriz Maritza Vernaza con su monólogo SIEMPRE ERA NOCHE, de Diego Montoya.

El miércoles 6 será el turno de la obra RED, creación colectiva dirigida por Renán Fernández, a cargo del Grupo Samón, en el Estudio Multiuso del GECU, y continúa la programación el jueves 7, en el Teatro Anita Villalaz, con la puesta en escena de LA BESTIA, escrita y dirigida por Roy Williams, en tanto el viernes 8, también en el Estudio Multiuso del GECU, se presentará RE:VERSIONES, obra de Javier Stanziola dirigida por él.

Y finalizando la franja nacional, que en el caso del FAE busca aglutinar lo mejor del teatro de búsqueda y experimentación que se da en nuestro medio, el sábado 9 también el Estudio Multiuso del GECU será el escenario para la presentación de la obra LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA, de Federico García Lorca, dirigida por Renán Fernández y a cargo de la Compañía Malapuñalada.

Los boletos estarán a la venta pronto en Tustiquetes.com a precios muy accesibles. Más información en info@faepanama.org o FAE Panamá en redes.

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La Bestia
 

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