Must be another personal attack, TROLL ALERT!
VB I have no idea where your post is coming from. I assume a troll attack of some kind from the unwashed and ignored. Don't know why we are counting languages???? Oh well...for the record most of our BOD members speak three or four. Most of our large investors speak the same number. About have of our employees speak two. Personally I speak two and one-half, my children speak mostly speak three, my one daughter speaks nine, my grand children all speak at least three. So that makes me the most uneducated member of the family. Some one needs to explain exactly what that has to do with PTQ???
On another tack, the election is vital to PTQ. PRD's Navarro has pledged to shut down Petaquilla and re-study mining for several years. FAD and the other smaller parties promise to unite and to nationalize us throwing out all foreign interests. Panamanistas have not taken a formal position that I am aware of today. Arias and CD promise to continue as things have been in the past five years. This election is hugely important for our future in Petaquilla and for Panama. That is why everything else is pushed aside with a very close election coming. Here is an editorial this morning from La Estrella explaining the possibilities. You will note the total vacuum created by the USA over the last five years in Central and South America is showing itself as country after country fall toward the Chinese or Russian influence. If you don't think that this will not affect Petaquilla you are very, very wrong. We are fortunate that our company is considered Panamanian by the pueblo. If you know anything about history of Latin America,(Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba) then you know that FQM is much more vulnerable. Our agreements will become public soon and are very good in company specific matters, but all is overshadowed by this election.
La Estrella 17/4/2014
"If José Domingo Arias was elected president on May 4 there is a set of possible scenarios. All have three common factors will continue with an economic policy that impoverishes the Panamanian population. Foreign militarization continue its pace. The U.S. embassy will continue to lead the country's foreign policy .
If Arias wins, there could be a first scenario : The country would face almost immediately, to an internal struggle between the outgoing president and the new president Martinelli . The struggle will generate a situation of lawlessness that would last the entire five year period. Another scenario is that Martinelli achieves Arias replacement with the vice president ( Mrs. Martinelli ) through an agreement with other political forces. Finally , Arias could win the hand Martinelli , using the resources of the Presidency and the support of the U.S. embassy.
What if a candidate wins the traditional opposition parties? Both have said during the campaign that they would continue with the same policy that is destroying the fabric of the country . The militarization continue its pace. The PRD and the Panamanian Party (1989-2009) signed the first post-invasion military agreements with Washington and promoted the construction of 15 military bases by U.S. No reason to think that would change the role of the U.S. embassy in defining the country's foreign policy.
The current President Martinelli would contest the election victory of the opposition. He would request a recount, accuse judges , political parties and civic groups to mount a fraud conspiracy. Seek support in Washington, the Israeli- conservative lobby in the U.S. capital as well as the far-right groups that surround some leaders of the Latin American region . It is very likely that the U.S. embassy would remind Martinelli that they have no friends, only interests . A statement of this kind would neutralize any move by the Supreme Court of Panama.
Before a remote possibility to triumph FAD (far left) party organized by labor and other progressive sectors of Panama or the independent and leftist Juan Jované candidacy is likely that all the traditional parties would unite to find a way to block the rise of a government of this kind . The FAD or Jované probably pose a serious economic reform. Policies would destroy the 'drip' of neo-liberal ideologues and execute a policy instead of productive employment with huge surpluses that provides the operation of the Panama Canal . Would end the militarization of foreign country. At the same time , foreign policy recover abducted 25 years ago by the U.S. embassy.
In five years , their economic policy , based on a national development plan , double the wealth, making Panama the most prosperous country in the region . Consumption indicators and capitalist profit rate would skyrocket exceed that of the last ten years.
A rule of this kind would be attacked , as was the Popular Unity in Chile in the 1970s , the FMLN in Nicaragua and Venezuela from 1998 to the present. Why? The answer is simple . Speculators lose the ' overruns ' totaling billions of dollars, govern with transparency , multimillion grants for importers , bankers, real estate developers and speculators would be eliminated.
Shock troops SENAFRONT serving domestic and foreign speculators who built with government subsidies hydro-power in the region of indigenous peoples would stop . No soldiers SENAN be mobilized to attack communities of the Gulf of Panama , whose islands ( Pedro González is an example) have become illegal tourism businesses renter families , who never tire of stealing land from peasants.
Arias or any of the opposition candidates of the traditional parties can win in 2014. Jované But the FAD and are laying the groundwork for what will be a struggle to be defined sooner rather than later . The country has to find another way that allows all Panamanians become responsible and productive citizens. The wealth of the country are wasting , creating fortunes based on speculation and at the same time, the street throwing working families in cities and in the countryside ."
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