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...Martinelli," says Pedro Gomez, owner of a small Panama City cobbler shop who says he was finally tired of "receiving nothing in return. At least Martinelli promised to give scholarships and free books to children, and my sons need them." Martinelli has also proposed construction of a $1 billion metro, both under- and above ground, along with a light-rail system. (Read a story on the "red devils" that terrorize the streets of Panama City...
...last Nov. 29 in New Delhi. The polls opened while the siege of Mumbai was still going on, and many political observers expected that the BJP, which had relentlessly portrayed Congress as "soft on terror," would win. Instead, young voters gave the ruling Congress Party credit for the Delhi Metro, a new mass-transit system, and re-elected Sheila Dikshit, the city's 71-year-old chief minister. "Age was not the criteria," Deshmukh says. The calculation was, he explains, much simpler. "If you deliver, you will get my vote...
...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...
...wants a modern transportation system to fit its sophisticated and worldly ambitions. But getting rid of the second-hand busses has become one of the trickiest parts of Panama City's extreme makeover - and now a central issue in the May 3 presidential elections. "All modern cities have a metro system," said presidential frontrunner Ricardo Martinelli, during a recent speech to the city's top business leaders. "This will be the flagship project of my government. It will make this a first world city...
...ventured out only to see their doctor, to make sure the flu-like symptoms Andrea had been feeling recently weren't A/H1N1 - and that she, more than eight months pregnant, wouldn't infect the baby, which is due any day now. As they climbed out of the Tacubaya metro station, they stopped to wash their hands with disinfectant and drink fluids provided at stations set up all over town by the government. "Sometimes it feels like just one more thing going out of control for us in this country," says Benjamin. "The drug war, the economic crisis and now this...