Panama President: “We are privatising the Postal Services”

[Judi Lynn]

Panama President: “We are privatising the Postal Services”
11/09/2010
Panama

Panama City. The privatisation of Postal and Telegraph Services of Panama (COTEL) is on the Government’s agenda. During the last week, Ricardo Martinelli, President of the Republic, announced the measure in America Economía, a magazine with 90 thousand subscribers in Latin America.

“We have an inefficient Post-Office System. One of the things we must devote ourselves to do is to fix the Postal System. In fact, we must think of privatising the Postal Services”, declared the Head of State. “We have the worst officers working there, we have underpaid and unmotivated employees”, he added.

However, it seems contradictory that at the beginning of his activities (July 29th, 2009) the ex Director of COTEL, Exberto Cedeño, asserted that the company would not be privatised. “The Postal service has a social duty to fulfil with 123 Post Offices throughout the country”, he maintained at that moment.

Now everything seems to indicate that the decision has changed. Roxana Mendez, Government’s Minister, confirmed that two proposals for privatising are being evaluated as well as the possibility of constituting a mixed model organisation in which part of the shares would be owned by the State and the rest by private capitals.

More:
http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/iportal.nsf/pages/homeEn?OpenDocument&exURL=http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/UNINews.nsf/vwLkpById/75BC1004595B98F6C12577D6007CC241?Opendocument

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Ricardo Martinelli

[Phil The Cat]

1. Next Up:The J.P. Morgan Air Force?

The Bank of America Department of Human Services?

"This waterboarding was brought to you by Budweiser, the king of both beers and you!"

Soon, we will be monitored and charged for the amount of air we breathe when the world's oxygen is all bought up by Haliburton!

[Judi Lynn]

2. Absolutely! We know so many of us would have suffocated long ago

if only someone had found a way to privatize air.

Just remembered, the right-wing lunatic, Rev. Sun Myung Moon chose his little bit of heaven right here on earth directly over the largest fresh water aquifer in South America, the Guarani Aquifer in Paraguay.

There's also this story we heard in 2006:

Paraguay in a spin about Bush's alleged 100,000 acre hideaway
Tom Phillips in Cuiab The Guardian,
Monday 23 October 2006

Meeting the new couple next door can be an anxious business for even the most relaxed home owner. Will they be international drug traffickers? Have they got noisy kids with a penchant for electronic music? As worries go, however, having the US president move in next door must come fairly low on the list. Unless of course you are a resident of northern Paraguay and believe reports in the South American press that he has bought up a 100,000 acre (40,500 hectare) ranch in your neck of the woods.

The rumours, as yet unconfirmed but which began with the state-run Cuban news agency Prensa Latina, have triggered an outpouring of conspiracy theories, with speculation rife about what President Bush's supposed interest in the "chaco", a semi-arid lowland in the Paraguay's north, might be. Some have speculated that he might be trying to wrestle control of the Guarani Aquifer, one of the largest underground water reserves, from the Paraguayans.

Rumours of Mr Bush's supposed forays into South American real estate surfaced during a recent 10-day visit to the country by his daughter Jenna Bush. Little is known about her trip to Paraguay, although officially she travelled with the UN children's agency Unicef to visit social projects. Photographers from the Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color tracked her down to one restaurant in Paraguay's capital Asunción, where she was seen flanked by 10 security guards, and was also reported to have met Paraguay's president, Nicanor Duarte, and the US ambassador to Paraguay, James Cason. Reports in sections of the Paraguayan media suggested she was sent on a family "mission" to tie up the land purchase in the "chaco".

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/oct/23/mainsection.tomphillips

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Mariscal Estigarribia air base, built by the US out in the
middle of nowhere in Paraguay. No close towns, nada. Very
convenient transportation hub for a very few people.