Ricardo Martinelli, an entrepreneur and the main leader of the opposition, was elected president of Panama with a 60 per cent of voting, according to the National Election Council of the South American nation. The second in the elections was the social-democrat Balbina Herrera who got a voting between 32 and 36 per cent, while former president Guillermo Endara remained in a very low position with only 2 per cent.
Martinelli, who is well known as the millionaire owner of a chain of markets in Panama, said that he will make a government of national unity after he knew the results proclaimed in television by the national election council. It is also the first rightist candidate to win the presidential elections in Latin American after a succession of leftist to the first seat of the countries like in Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Martinelli will govern Panama between 1rst July 2009 and 2014.
The Farc guerrillas made one of the biggest cartels of drug trafficking of the world, said president Álvaro Uribe in a meeting with the presidents of Panama, Guatemala and Mexico to discuss agreements to fight organized crime in the region.
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Even if countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru have presented big programs to cushion the world recession, it will not be enough to the strong 2009 effects on the regional economies, suggested Standard & Poor’s (S&P).
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A long travel to United States from Africa stopped in Colombia. Five Africans were arrested by the Colombian police in the State of Córdoba, according to sources of the Security Administration Department of Colombia, DAS.
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“Panama: a golden mine for Colombia” was the expression used by Colprensa in its report about the investments of Colombia in its neighbor. The article published by El Pais of Cali in this date, shows the growing investment of Colombian companies in one of the busiest trade centers of the Americas due to its Channel that connects the most important world trade routes of the planet. The South American country has invested about 2,000 million dollars in the last years with the most known companies like Multicentro, Cusezar, Espacios Urbanos, Conconcretos, Acesco, Cementos Caribe (now Cementos Argos), Grupo Nacional de Chocolates, Bavaria, Interbolsa, Suvalor and Colpatria, among many others. The political stability of Panama and its benefits for foreign investment like a same treat for national and foreign companies in a legal frame, has attracted the growing economy of the Coffee Nation. Other country that is becoming so interesting for the Colombian entrepreneurs is Costa Rica.
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