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Catherina

(35,568 posts)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 12:18 AM Apr 2013

Panama protocol chief fired over message to Venezuela

Panama protocol chief fired over message to Venezuela
Thursday, 18 April 2013 22:48


PANAMA’S chief of State Protocol and Ceremony has been fired over a message addressed to Venezuela’s president elect, Nicolas Maduro.

Foreign Minister, Fernando Nunez Fabrega, confirmed on Thursday, April 17 that Christopher Sarmiento, was sacked for the error in sending a note congratulating Maduro, before Venezuelan electoral authorities had formalized Maduro’s triumph.

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On Wednesday the Government conducted an internal administrative investigation, into a letter in which supposedly President Ricardo Martinelli, congratulated the elected president of Venezuela.

Through his Twitter account Martinelli denied that he had signed such a document.

http://www.newsroompanama.com/panama/5561-panama-protocol-chief-fired-over-message-to-venezuela.html
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Panama protocol chief fired over message to Venezuela (Original Post) Catherina Apr 2013 OP
Crazy, isn't it? Makes you wonder if US-suck-up, grocery chain magnate Ricardo Martinelli Judi Lynn Apr 2013 #1
You're right. He's not very high up on the dogpile of "made dogs" in LatAm. Peace Patriot Apr 2013 #2

Judi Lynn

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1. Crazy, isn't it? Makes you wonder if US-suck-up, grocery chain magnate Ricardo Martinelli
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 02:59 AM
Apr 2013

caught this message and squashed it, or if the US contacted him and told him to put it where the sun doesn't shine.....

Martinelli is going to have a long time to realize, apparently, that Latin America is going in a different direction from the one he and the US are pushing the people of Panama. He's trying his best to avoid what happened to previous Panamanian leaders General Omar Torrijos , and former CIA employee, Manuel Noriega. Looks as if he's found the way to please the State Department.

Peace Patriot

(24,010 posts)
2. You're right. He's not very high up on the dogpile of "made dogs" in LatAm.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 12:57 PM
Apr 2013

He couldn't get the Bushwhacks to help him spy on his "enemies" the way they were helping their mafia boss Alvaro Uribe in Colombia. (Wikileaks.) He's not going to get academic sinecures at Harvard and Georgetown and U.S. State Department intervention in lawsuits against his death squads (Uribe/Drummond Coal). In fact, they'll probably never do for him what he did for them--helping get Uribe witness Maria Hurtado out of Colombia and into instant, overnight asylum in Panama.

Truly, he'd better watch out. The U.S. secret government is a treacherous ally--as Noriega and others have found out.

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