the boston herald is reporting president bush will establish a professional health care training center in panama to serve all of central america, training students to be nurses, technicians, and health care workers.
the l.a. times has an excellent article on panama’s minister of tourism, ruben blades.
the sydney morning herald has an interesting story about taking the train from panama city to colon, entitled, “crossing the continent in 57 minutes.”
prensa latina says foreigners are looting panama’s past. one item for sale, an 800 year old gold crocodile from the veraguas province.
the bbc reports that kunas are getting health benefits from drinking up to 40 cups of cocoa a week. studies show their rates of stroke, heart disease, cancer and diabetes are less than 10%.
noriegaville gives my bank hsbc panama a good flogging this week. okke raises an important question; if you can get sued for complaining about service, are your assets really safe in panama?
¿Otro dÃa largo en Panamá? ¿Cocoa para mi corazon? ¡Qué bueno! (Pero no es mejor que Abuelo.)
Comment by lakesdiver — March 14, 2007 @ 11:48 am
the Nashville Nebbish claims that losers from the US (especially Boston) are seeking refuge and solitude from the grim realities of their pitiful loathing existence in a self-indulgent alcohol induced state in Panama. The inhalation of paint fumes have further deteriorated the thinking process of these unfortunate individuals further alienating them from reality and causing them to cut off the very hand that feeds them.
Comment by URADickWeed — March 14, 2007 @ 4:10 pm
so, cojito, is dickweed a family member or an ex-wife? or a scorned lover?
a couple observations:
most of the losers i know are in the states, not panama. they spend a lot of time dissing the people who have the balls to make a change.
“self-indulgent” is usually thrown around by codependent losers who have failed to gain sufficient control of your life to meet their inexhaustible needs.
anyone who hasn’t been “alienated from the reality” of the states is brain dead
based upon the subsistence-level (and happy) life that i see you lead, “the hand that feeds you” isn’t givnig you much that you aren’t already living without. good thing you cut it off.
my advice to dickweed - get a life.
Comment by marcopolo — March 14, 2007 @ 5:20 pm
haha i don’t know. thanks marco. that’s a strange one.
i’m not sure what he’s on about. maybe upset with the bush article i wrote? projection? envy? he’s very angry about something. poor fellow, if only he was a little more articulate.
Comment by cojito — March 14, 2007 @ 6:41 pm
nada es mejor que abuelo lakesdiver. puedes ponerlo en tu cocoa.
Comment by cojito — March 14, 2007 @ 10:13 pm
I don’t know about him being cranky… but I sure am! Nothing bothers me more than people who read a blog written in English and feel a compelling need to respond COMPLETELY IN MEXICAN!!!
I mean… would you go to a blog written in the Mexican and insist on posting in English??? Hell, no! They’d call you “Anglo-Centric.”
Comment by Raul — March 15, 2007 @ 6:53 am
hehe - have your ol’ lady translate. she’s mexican isn’t she?
Comment by cojito — March 15, 2007 @ 11:41 am