Thursday, August 16, 2007

Odds and ends

  • Repsol’s plans to continue deep offshore oil exploration have slipped from early 2008 to late 2008.

  • The current government of Panama apparently sees something fishy in the pardon extended to Luis Posada Carriles and three associates in 2004, in the final days of the term of President Mireya Moscoso. Three officials will be tried for abuse of authority next January.


5 comments:

leftside said...

There is very little doubt that the request for Moscoso's pardon of the terrorist Carriles came straight from the US, who quite obviously has a strong interest in keeping him quiet. This, or her more recent drug scandal, should be news in the US. It is important for the Panamanian Government to not leave unanswered this blatant abuse of power and foreign meddling.

Chaviano was given a 15 year sentence, so he was let out 2 years early, contary to statements that from Elizardo Sanchcez that he'd served his complete time. Using the opposition's self-defined count, the number of "political prisoners" has gone down more than 30% in a little more than a year. We are now talking some 250 people max. Have no doubt there are thousands of unjustly imprisoned Los Angelenos here in my city alone - and they did not live well off foreign paychecks...

Mambi_Watch said...

Phil,

The link to the Posada story is not working here's an english link from Prensa Latina:

http://www.plenglish.com/
article.asp?ID=%7BAD066DE8-127C-
4120-AB6D-0F46CC25E390%7D)&language=
EN

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