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...canal, approved by voters in 2006, which has already created 2,000 new jobs and promises to engender thousands more before the project is finished in 2014. "We will change this country," Martinelli pledged on Sunday night after garnering 61% of the vote to just 37% for Balbina Herrera of the ruling Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD). Martinelli, who got only 5.3% of the vote in his first presidential run, in 2004, is the first presidential candidate in Panama's modern history to win an absolute majority. (See pictures of Panama's historic vote on expanding its canal...
Current President Martin Torrijos - the son of the late Panamanian strongman Brigadier General Omar Torrijos, who got the U.S. in 1977 to sign the treaty that eventually gave the canal to Panama - has pushed through some anticorruption reforms. But scandals have persisted. Herrera's campaign had to fight allegations that it received financing from a Colombian national now in prison in Bogotá on charges of alleged extortion, money laundering and drug trafficking in exchange for political favors. (It didn't help Herrera when it was disclosed that while he was staying in Panama, the Colombian, David Murcia, had employed...
...government's perceived mismanagement of the situation has made it an even hot campaign issue down the home stretch. Presidential candidate Balbina Herrera, of the incumbent Democratic Revolutionary Party, promises her government would build an elevated monorail, which she says would be the most "aesthetic" and "least invasive" way to modernize the city's public transportation system. The opposition's Martinelli scoffs, "Monorails only work in Disney World," and insists the solution lies with a $700 million metro system...
...capture of one of Colombia's most wanted drug lords - who had, according to the police, been hiding in the country's northwestern jungle "like a dog" under a shelter of palm fronds - has led to major rejoicing in the country's war on drugs. Daniel Rendon Herrera, alias "Don Mario," allegedly headed a vast narcotrafficking operation, run largely out of the country's northwest, that caused a surge in drug violence in the nearby city of Medellin. The activities of his drug empire were allegedly responsible for 3,000 deaths in the last 18 months alone...
...heart of the Casco are three squares: Plazas Bolivar, Herrera and Independencia, the site of the city's dramatic 17th century cathedral. Moments away you'll find numerous Casco newcomers - places like Indigo (www.indigopanama.com), a North African?inspired restaurant and lounge, and Ego Café, tel: (507) 262 2045, with its adventurous Panamanian-Mediterranean menu. You can sample rich ice creams and sorbets - from basil to Earl Grey - at Granclement, tel: (507) 228 0737; browse through intricately carved wooden crafts at Karavan Gallery, tel: (507) 228 5161; and take home one-of-a-kind pieces by local artists from Casa...