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...routine coastal patrol last week, Panamanian police noticed two dozen shrimp boats clustered near the island of Cebaco, on the Pacific coast. Suspicious, officers boarded one of the craft and discovered two packages containing 15 kg of cocaine. For Nestor Castillo, police chief of Veraguas province, it was a distressingly familiar episode. "In the past year we are getting flooded with cocaine processed in Colombia," he says. "More than ever before...
...Panama, according to a little-known racketeering suit that the country brought against B.C.C.I., the bank systematically helped Noriega loot the national treasury. B.C.C.I. allowed the leader to open secret offshore accounts under the names of the Panamanian National Guard, the Panamanian Defense Forces and the Panamanian Treasury, to transfer national funds into those accounts and then to tap the funds himself...
...That is exactly what I'm saying. The idea that I am a narco trafficker stemmed from DEA reports from the time I was a partner and president of the board of directors of a Panamanian bank ((First Interamericas Bank)). In 1984 the U.S. requested my extradition from Spain. Instead I was extradited to Colombia, where I was tried on the basis of a file submitted by the American government, with evidence it presented, and with witnesses brought from the U.S. to testify against me. I was acquitted first by a judge and then by the superior court of Cali...
...Exactly. I think the DEA will never forgive me for the fact that so much money was laundered legally through the First Interamericas Bank of Panama in accordance with Panamanian...
McGrath hopes to continue expanding Unplugged's appeal by signing up more women and trying provocative experiments like, say, a collaboration between Panamanian singer Ruben Blades and New York City rocker Lou Reed. Meanwhile, Unplugged has proved that MTV doesn't need electricity to keep its audiences wired...