NEW: Former President Ricardo Martinelli’s proxy candidate, José Raúl Mulino, leads the polls in Panama ahead of the May 5 vote, writes Mat Youkee.
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Desi #Bouterse was the sort of dictator that Latin Amerlcan novelists fantasize about. Brash, charismatic and brazenly corrupt. He was definitively sentenced for his role in a mass killing today.

My 2015 backgrounder on fascinating #suriname

roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/cold-case…

Colombian Spanish to English translation required:

noun: gamín

Any thoughts?

Conquistadors, pirates and a US plan to nuke a sea-level canal through mountainous jungle. My article on the history of the #Darien gap

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Ukraine-Russia, Armenia-Azerbaijan, now Israel-Palestine.

Here's that 'multipolar world' you ordered. Hope you're happy.

A Dutch artist spent a year-plus creating a 3-D model of what Tenochtitlan (capital of Aztec empire) looked like, overlaid it with today’s Mexico City, and even has a Nahuatl translation. Amazing Thomas Kole 👏👏 tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

Ricardo Martinelli, former President of Panama, threatened to sue us due to a post we made about him, claiming that he was 'never been arrested for corruption'.
Martinelli is now sentenced to almost 11 years in jail, having been found guilty of money laudering.

Former Panamanian president Juan Carlos Varela banned from entering the US due to corruption allegations.

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Top tier political meming

Narco sub captured on the Rio Arauca last April also featured in the parade

Excellent addition to the Bogota café scene

Trust The Daily Mail to turn the children's traumatic experience into a 'love rat', clickbait headline and publish uncensored photos of the children in their hospital beds

Petro arranges the return to Colombia of two sacred Kogui masks from a Berlin museum.

Like Lula, he appears to be pretty good on the foreign relations front.

Gustavo Petro denies accusations of his involvement in the chuzados scandal made by an anonymous source to Semana magazine.

Most interesting is his admission of his relationship with the Gilinski family and that he didnt look to 'take advantage' of their hostile takeover of GEA

A bitch in heat has been brought in to aid the search for Wilson and hopefully entice him from his hiding place.

Wilson, however, is castrated, so the military are unsure if this will work.

Just walked past a building site in chapinero and the two builders mixing cement were theorizing the reasons for #Wilson 's disappearance.

Apparently you can learn anything on TikTok, including how to illegally mine gold in the Amazon.

Good news. The older children rescued from the jungle have been strong enough to draw.

Their pictures feature a dog, believed to be Wilson, that they say spent time with them and remains missing in the jungle.

Pics courtesy of Colombia military.

A brief note on the role indigenous spirituality, ancestral knowledge and ancient medicine played in the search.

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