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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
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| 04PANAMA1015 |
PANAMA: WHO IS PRESIDENT-ELECT MARTIN TORRIJOS AND [...] (SBU) At 7:35 p.m. local time (8:35 p.m. Washington time), Panama's Electoral Tribunal declared Martin Erasto Torrijos Espino the winner of Panama's May 2, 2004 General Elections. It appeared that voter participation would exceed 75%. Torrijos' five-year term as President will commence Septembe [...] |
2004-05-03 02:48:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA1016 |
PANAMA: BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON VICE [...] (SBU) Martin Torrijos chose a seasoned businessman with strong political connections as his First Vice President and a soft-spoken, but seasoned politician as his Second Vice President. First Vice President-elect Samuel Lewis Navarro is the son of former Noriega foreign minister (later anti- [...] |
2004-05-03 03:04:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA1047 |
PANAMA MAY 2 ELECTION RESULTS: POWERFUL PRD AND [...] (C) President-elect Martin Torrijos and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) won a commanding popular mandate in Panama's May 2, 2004 elections, sweeping all provinces but one. The results were a stinging rebuke of President Mireya Moscoso, whose five-year term will end on September 1, 20 [...] |
2004-05-03 22:47:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR PM POL CHIEF POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA1146 |
PANAMA: BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON FIRST LADY [...] (SBU) Panamanians widely hold Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos, wife of President-elect Martin Torrijos, in high regard. She is well known for her active role in charitable and social work, as well as being a model mother and wife. Vivian Torrijos is an accomplished publicist and has worked for [...] |
2004-05-11 19:44:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA1224 |
PANAMA LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: NEW BALLGAME ON [...] (SBU) Panamanians (current legislators included) are so focused on what will happen after September 1 that they appear to have forgotten entirely that the current Assembly session will continue until the end of May. The Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), Panama's largest and best organize [...] |
2004-05-17 20:49:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA1704 |
PANAMA'S FM ARIAS NONCOMMITTAL ON REQUEST TO [...] (C) DCM, accompanied by Polcouns, delivered reftel talking points to Panamanian Foreign Minister Harmodio Arias Cerjack on June 30, 2004. With two months left for this government, Arias was (not surprisingly) noncommittal on whether the GOP would be willing to accept protected Cuban and Hait [...] |
2004-07-01 19:43:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SMIG PM CU HA POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA1740 |
PANAMA BALKS AT ACCEPTING PROTECTED CUBAN AND [...] No summary [...] |
2004-07-08 16:23:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL SMIG PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA1814 |
PANAMA'S PLANS FOR SUMMIT FOLLOW-UP [...] No summary [...] |
2004-07-14 21:37:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON KSUM PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA1849 |
FEDERICO ANTONIO HUMBERT ARIAS TO BE NEXT [...] (C) President-elect Martin Torrijos has selected Federico "Freddy" Antonio Humbert Arias to be Panama's Ambasador to the United States as of September 1, 2004, but has not yet announced the appointment. Foreign Minister-designate Samuel Lewis Navarro told DCM that he already approached Foreign [...] |
2004-07-20 14:19:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA200 |
PANAMA'S NEW SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE PEREIRA [...] (C) Elected by his colleagues for a two-year term as President (Chief Justice) of Panama's nine-member Supreme Court on October 23, 2003, Cesar Antonio Pereira Burgos (DOB: 29 SEP 1929) has not yet shown strong interest in continuing the drive to reform Panama's judiciary that his predecessor, [...] |
2004-01-30 19:47:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA213 |
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR NIKOLAY VLADIMIR DEPARTS [...] (SBU) This biographical report details Ambassador and Emboffs' impressions of Nikolay Vladimir during his tenure as Russian Ambassador to Panama as well as the highlights of his Curriculum Vitae. Ambassador Vladimir departed Panama in December 2003, informing Ambassador Watt that he had been [...] |
2004-02-02 22:22:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PM RS POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA23 |
PANAMA ON BOARD FOR A PRODUCTIVE SPECIAL SUMMIT OF [...] (C) Ambassador Watt delivered reftel B demarche to Panama's Foreign Minister Harmodio Arias Madrid and Vice Foreign Minister and Summit of the Americas Coordinator Nivia Rossana Castrellon on December 30. Ambassador Watt stressed with FM Arias the four key areas in Reftel A talking points. On [...] |
2004-01-06 21:39:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KSUM PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA2363 |
PANAMA: ARNULFISTAS LOSE LEGISLATIVE SEAT TO PRD. [...] (SBU) Geovany Castillo of President Torrijos' Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) defeated Arnulfista Party (PA) legislative incumbent Haydee Milanes de Lay by an 11% margin in 9/12 partial elections in Panama's easternmost province of Darien. Castillo will represent the La Palma region (el [...] |
2004-09-16 22:12:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PM POL FOREIGN |
| 04PANAMA2533 |
PANAMA'S SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE CESAR [...] (C) Controversy continues to swirl around the issue of whether Panama's Supreme Court Chief Justice Cesar PEREIRA Burgos must step down after turning 75 on September 23, 2004. Comptroller General Alvin Weeden and numerous Pereira opponents have insisted that Pereira should step down from the [...] |
2004-10-13 22:40:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KJUS PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA2641 |
PANAMA'S ARNULFISTA PARTY: ELECTORAL SHELLACKING [...] (C) Up-and-coming Arnulfista Party (PA) leaders will not wait for Party President Mireya Moscoso to complete her term in January 2006 before trying to rebuild the party, ideally minus her. After the PA's meager third-place finish (16.4% of popular vote) in Panama's May 2004 presidential elect [...] |
2004-10-27 14:26:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA2694 |
PANAMA: NEW GENERATION OF ARNULFISTA VISIONARIES [...] (C) The strong push to reform the Arnulfista Party (PA) after its May 2004 electoral defeat (see reftel) raises questions about why it occurred, who can repair the damage, what are the PA's long-term prospects, and what it all means for the USG. Most observers blame Mireya Moscoso and her cl [...] |
2004-11-02 16:50:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA2841 |
PANAMA: TORRIJOS AGENDA CONTINUES AFTER [...] (SBU) President Martin Torrijos and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) are trying to make the most of their honeymoon period. Less than 100 days into its five-year term, the new administration has accomplished one of its top domestic priorities by pushing through a constitutional reform [...] |
2004-11-24 14:57:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA30 |
PANAMA UNDECIDED ON 8 OF 9 CERD SPOTS [...] (U) On January 6, MFA International Organizations Deputy Director General Nubia Lezcano advised Poloff that the GOP has committed to one CERD candidate due to "previous agreements," but has not decided who to support for the other eight positions. Lezcano further explained that it was unlikel [...] |
2004-01-07 18:50:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA301 |
PANAMA ELECTIONS: FIRST DEBATE TURNS UP THE HEAT [...] THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. SUMMARY: CANDIDATES BARE TEETH ------------------------------ 2. (SBU) During Panama's February 2 nationwide televised presidential debate, the four candidates soon shelved their inhibitions and began attacking one another [...] |
2004-02-09 21:26:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA345 |
PANAMA READY TO FOLLOW-UP ON IAEA CODE OF CONDUCT [...] (SBU) On February 9, 2004, Embassy delivered diplomatic note No. 162 containing reftel letter from Secretary Powell to Panama's Minister of Foreign Affairs Harmodio Arias. MFA Director General for International Organizations and Conferences Rodolfo Aleman Zubieta advised Poloff that same day [...] |
2004-02-13 19:52:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM KNNP PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA352 |
PANAMA ELECTION COUNTDOWN #2: 11 WEEKS TO GO [...] Sensitive But Unclassified. Protect Accordingly. The Race Is On -------------- 2. (U) Candidates for all 1,754 national and local positions to be contested in Panama's May 2 elections have shifted their efforts into high gear. As political advertising increases in every medium from roll [...] |
2004-02-13 22:18:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA40 |
PANAMA'S MAY 2004 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Panamanians nationwide will go to the polls on May 2, 2004 to choose a president, 78 legislators, 75 mayors, 619 local representatives, and 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament. The presidential campaign currently is a two-man race (in a field of four candidates) with t [...] |
2004-01-08 19:28:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY POL SPECIALIST |
| 04PANAMA440 |
PANAMA ELECTIONS - NOTES FROM THE FIELD - CHIRIQUI [...] (SBU) Residents of Chiriqui, Panama's largest dairy, coffee, and vegetable producer, and its capital David, Panama's third-largest city, want politicians to focus on unemployment and an agricultural sector threatened by a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. Pol Counsel [...] |
2004-02-25 18:17:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PM PINR PREL POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA651 |
MORE SECRETS, A DEBATE, AND ANOTHER POLL SHOWS [...] (SBU) Local press meticulously covered former President Ernesto Perez Balladares' unexpected disclosure of discretionary expenditures during his presidency (1994-99), tied to the ongoing battle between Electoral Prosecutor Gerardo Solis and President Moscoso. (Reftels A & B). A March 16 presi [...] |
2004-03-19 19:39:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA823 |
PANAMANIAN SUPREME COURT THROWS OUT CHARGES [...] (C) Citing "lack of jurisdiction," by an 8-1 vote, Panama's Supreme Court has terminated Public Ministry investigations of all charges against Israeli national Shimon Yalin Yelinek, currently residing in Panama, for his alleged role in smuggling Nicaraguan military weapons to the paramilitary [...] |
2004-04-07 19:29:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET | PARM PREL KCOR PTER KJUS PM NI CO GA POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA828 |
PANAMA PUBLIC OPINION POLLS NOT DEPENDABLE [...] (SBU) Panama's nationally-published public opinion polls are probably biased, do not offer a dependable measure of Panamanians' voting preferences, and probably will not accurately predict outcomes for the May 2 elections. While we still think Martin Torrijos will win the May 2, 2004 presiden [...] |
2004-04-08 15:13:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA896 |
PANAMA: TORRIJOS TEAM STIFLES ELECTION EVE [...] (C) Arnulfista and Solidarity Party opponents of presidential candidate Martin Torrijos have given documents to reporters that they hope will link him to a 1985 drug-related kidnapping. Apparently rattled by a potentially damaging story that could break just before the May 2 election, the To [...] |
2004-04-19 21:46:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA924 |
PANAMA: THE CAMPAIGN OF ARNULFISTA PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Arnulfista Presidential Candidate Jose Miguel Aleman, a distant third in most public opinion polls, seeks to emerge from President Moscoso's shadow to place first in Panama's May 2 elections. Neutralizing Aleman's greatest logistical asset, the three-party coalition that backs him and its [...] |
2004-04-22 12:31:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 04PANAMA975 |
PANAMA ELECTION EVE OUTLOOK: LIKELY WINNER [...] (C) Martin Torrijos and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), well ahead by most indicators, are poised to win the presidency and a plurality of legislative seats in Panama's Sunday, May 2, 2004 general elections. The American-educated Torrijos has marginalized the PRD's "old guard" and ha [...] |
2004-04-27 22:52:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1024 |
PANAMA OAS DEMARCHE: GOP LIKELY TO SUPPORT U.S. [...] No summary [...] |
2005-05-06 21:15:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM AORC PGOV PREL PM USOAS POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1025 |
PANAMA UNCHR DEMARCHE: GOP LIKELY TO SUPPORT U.S. [...] No summary [...] |
2005-05-06 21:15:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL PM UNGA POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1134 |
PANAMA CSS REFORM DEMONSTRATIONS BEGIN IN EARNEST [...] (SBU) ON MONDAY, MAY 23, THE FIRST ROUND OF DEBATES IN PANAMA'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CONTINUED AMID ROWDY, MAINLY STUDENT-LED DEMONSTRATIONS IN PRINCIPAL STREETS OF THE CITY, AND AT LEAST 70 ARRESTS. POLICE REPORTED STUDENTS WERE CARRYING KNIVES, MOLOTOV COCKTAILS, PLIERS, AND PETARDS. SOME WORE [...] |
2005-05-23 23:13:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PGOV PM PREL POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1173 |
PANAMA RESPONSE TO ILO DEMARCHES [...] No summary [...] |
2005-05-31 22:29:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CU ELAB PGOV PHUM PM PREL ILO POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1175 |
OAS: PANAMA TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR [...] (SBU) Ambassador Watt called Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis on Friday, May 27, to encourage support for the U.S. candidate for Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Paolo G. Carozza. The Foreign Minister informed Ambassador Watt on Tuesday, May 31, that the GOP would support Carozza. 2 [...] |
2005-06-01 14:12:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1183 |
PANAMA'S SOLIDARIDAD-LIBERAL NACIONAL MERGER WILL [...] (SBU) Two of Panama's small opposition parties, the National Liberal Party (PLN) and the Solidarity Party (Partido Solidaridad), are reportedly close to agreement on merging into a single political party. A merger between the two would lend Solidaridad, the larger of the two parties, a wider [...] |
2005-06-01 20:39:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1184 |
PANAMA'S CSS REFORM PACKAGE PASSES WITH MINOR [...] (SBU) On May 31, nine minutes before midnight, Panama's National Assembly passed President Martin Torrijos's Social Security (CSS) reform package with a vote of 43-30. All 43 Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) legislators voted in favor, while the opposition presented a united front against [...] |
2005-06-01 21:21:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PM PREL POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1205 |
PANAMA AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW REGARDING [...] (SBU) Embassy Panama offers the following information and analysis in response to Reftel A tasking. CUBA AND PANAMANIAN POLITICS 2. (C) Currently GOP and Cuba maintain only consular relations. Full diplomatic relations between the GOP and Cuba have not been reestablished since Cuba broke [...] |
2005-06-06 21:51:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PGOV PM PREL POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1320 |
MDA: PANAMA RESPONSE TO SWISS CIRCULAR NOTE ON [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-17 14:02:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM PREF PREL PGOV PM ICRC POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1339 |
PANAMA: NO POSITION TO SHARE ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-20 21:31:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KUNR PREL PM UNHCR POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1343 |
PANAMA RECEPTIVE TO USG PRIORITIES FOR UN REFORM [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-21 17:48:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PREL PGOV AORC PM UNSC POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1377 |
PANAMA PRESIDENT TORRIJOS BOWS TO LABOR PRESSURE [...] (C) In a surprise move on the evening of June 21, as anti-CSS (social security) strikes that no one thought would last more than a few days were set to enter their fifth week, President Torrijos announced that he would "suspend" writing regulations for the June 1 CSS reform law (Law 17), pendin [...] |
2005-06-24 21:26:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PM VE POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1415 |
PANAMA PRESIDENT TORRIJOS'S POPULARITY NOSE-DIVES [...] (C) Panama President Martin Torrijos's popularity plummeted in the wake of the June 1 passage of the Social Security (CSS) reform package pushed through the National Assembly by his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD). Less than one in four Panamanians now believe that Torrijos is doing an a [...] |
2005-07-01 21:24:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1426 |
MDA: PANAMA RESPONSE TO SWISS CIRCULAR NOTE ON [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-05 21:55:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM PREF PREL PGOV PM ICRC POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1433 |
PANAMA HAS NO OFFICIAL CANDIDATE FOR UNESCO; WILL [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-06 21:08:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL OTRA PREL PGOV PM UNESCO POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1435 |
PANAMA'S POSITION SIMILAR TO U.S. ON UN COMMISSION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-06 22:24:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KUNR PREL PM UNCHR POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA144 |
PANAMA: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IS NOW A FACT [...] (SBU) Panama's revised constitution, now in effect for one month, fulfills a key goal of President Torrijos's domestic political agenda. The entire constitutional revision process -- from its post-May 2004 national election start to its November 15 appearance in the national register -- took o [...] |
2005-01-19 16:55:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1463 |
PANAMA REQUESTS USG SUPPORT CANDIDACY TO POSTAL [...] (U) This is an Action Request (see para 3). 2. (U) On July 6, Embassy received a dip note from the MFA's Bureau of International Organizations requesting USG support for Panama's candidacy to the Management Committee of the Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal at elections to ta [...] |
2005-07-11 21:24:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PM PUAS POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1491 |
PANAMA POSITION ON G-4 PROPOSAL [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-13 20:45:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PM UNSC POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1525 |
PANAMA GENERALLY SUPPORTS USG ON PEACEBUILDING [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-18 20:22:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PM UNSC POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1552 |
PANAMA POSITION ON G-4 VOTE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-22 20:48:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSEP OTRA OVIP PREL PM UNGA UNSC POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1576 |
PANAMA CONFIRMS HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE TO 60TH UNGA [...] (U) This cable is an interim report on GOP attendance to the High-Level Event (HLE) and the 60th UNGA General Debate. GOP officials will provide Embassy with additional information after the first week of August. 2. (SBU) GOP delegation is as follows: A. Head of State: --Martin Torrij [...] |
2005-07-27 16:56:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA OVIP KSEP PREL PM UNGA POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1584 |
PANAMA ON UNSC REFORM: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-27 20:20:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR PGOV PM UNSC UNGA POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1589 |
PANAMA'S CSS NATIONAL DIALOGUE INCHES FORWARD, [...] (SBU) Four weeks into the 90-day National Dialogue on Social Security (CSS) Reform (reftels A and B), negotiations have produced few results other than threats of more strikes and demonstrations. The National Front for the Defense of CSS (FRENADESO) is promising to demonstrate on July 28, in [...] |
2005-07-28 17:13:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1591 |
PANAMA'S COLON: FLINT MICHIGAN ON THE CARIBBEAN [...] (SBU) When the USG began to draw down military forces from its bases in the Panama Canal Zone in the 1970s, the port city of Colon, on the Canal's northern terminus, was hit hard, experiencing the same rapid decline that made one-time car manufacturing center Flint, Michigan infamous. By the [...] |
2005-07-28 20:25:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL ECON SNAR PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1606 |
PANAMA RESPONSE TO UNSCR 1540 DEMARCHE [...] (U) On June 20, 2005, Embassy delivered reftel demarche via diplomatic note to MFA International Organizations (IO) Director Javier Bonagas. MFA IO responded with the following note verbale on July 27, 2005. (Begin unofficial translation) "Republic of Panama, Ministry of Foreign Relations [...] |
2005-07-29 21:56:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA1818 |
PANAMA FOREIGN MINISTRY ADVISOR NILS CASTRO ON [...] (C) On August 22, PolOff met with senior MFA advisor Nils Castro, former Ambassador to Mexico, to discuss GOP's August 20 re-establishment of full diplomatic relations with Cuba and GOP objectives in its petroleum negotiations with Venezuela. Castro, who recently spent two days in Caracas wit [...] |
2005-09-02 23:02:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM POL FOREIGN |
| 05PANAMA1948 |
PANAMA TURNING TOWARD TAIWAN [...] (C) Panamanian President Martin Torrijos's last-minute September 22 announcement that he would attend a September 26 Taiwan-Central America Summit in Managua comes on the heels of First Vice President and Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis's September 19 remarks to Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxi [...] |
2005-09-23 23:06:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM CM TW POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA2095 |
PANAMA SENDS OBSERVERS TO HAITIAN ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-18 22:30:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PM HA POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA2190 |
SCENE SETTER: POTUS NOVEMBER 6-7 VISIT TO PANAMA [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Embassy Panama extends its warmest welcome to President Bush for his upcoming visit to Panama. Canal expansion, bilateral security cooperation, and good governance initiatives currently top the bilateral [...] |
2005-11-02 16:55:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC OREP PGOV PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA2246 |
PANAMA HUMAN RIGHTS DAY: QUOTES ON FREEDOM AND THE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-16 22:38:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV KPAO PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA2309 |
PANAMA AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW REGARDING [...] (SBU) Embassy Panama offers the following information and analysis in response to Reftel A tasking. CUBA AND PANAMANIAN POLITICS 2. (C) On August 20, 2005, the GOP and Cuba reestablished full diplomatic ties with the signing of diplomatic notes in Havana, Cuba (Reftel C). Prior to the re [...] |
2005-11-25 21:06:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL PM CU POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA2357 |
PANAMANIAN REACTION TO 212 (F) VISA REVOCATION OF [...] (SBU) On the same day that Panama's National Assembly Justice Affairs Committee dismissed a complaint filed by the NGO Alliance for Justice against eight Supreme Court justices for highly questionable rulings, on November 29, Embassy Panama delivered formal notification to Winston Spadafora t [...] |
2005-12-05 13:02:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA2416 |
PANAMA'S CANDIDATE FOR A POSITION WITHIN THE [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (U) On November 15, Embassy Panama received GOP Diplomatic Note DGOCI/DGca/896/05, dated November 2, 2005, by which the Ministry of Foreign Relations informs the USG that the Government of Panama has decided to submit Guillermo Castro He [...] |
2005-12-14 15:13:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL PGOV PM UNDP POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA2490 |
PANAMA NAMES TWO NEW SUPREME COURT JUSTICES [...] (SBU) On December 28, President Torrijos submitted the names of Harley James Mitchell and Victor Leonel Benavides Pinilla to the National Assembly for ratification as Supreme Court magistrates. In a fast legislative session that evening, the National Assembly ratified both magistrates along w [...] |
2005-12-29 18:13:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA331 |
SCENESETTER: CODEL TAYLOR'S FEBRUARY 20-22 VISIT [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Panama, I would like to extend our warmest welcome on the upcoming February 20-22 visit of your delegation to Panama. You will have the opportunity to review a wide range of issues in [...] |
2005-02-14 23:14:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL EINV AMGT ASEC PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA350 |
PANAMA: SHOWDOWN AT THE ARNULFISTA CONVENTION [...] (SBU) Defying expectations, former president Mireya Moscoso retained her position as Arnulfista Party (PA) president at a January 16 closed-door convention, co-opting one of her main antagonists, Marco Ameglio, while defeating the other key challenger, liquor magnate Juan Carlos Varela. Now re [...] |
2005-02-16 21:31:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
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PANAMA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED SEEKING SUPPORT FOR US [...] (SBU) DCM demarched Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Duran on February 18, stressing U.S. concern about Venezuela's aggressive bid to chair the working group that will draft the OAS social charter and action plan. DCM underscored the U.S. commitment to work constructively with other countries to [...] |
2005-02-18 22:16:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY POL |
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PANAMA SUPPORTS US VIEWS ON OAS SOCIAL CHARTER [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-25 20:57:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM OAS POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
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PANAMA CONTINUES TO SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON HUMAN [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-07 21:17:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
| 05PANAMA778 |
PANAMA ATTORNEY GENERAL TESTS TORRIJOS [...] (C) Panama's independent Attorney General Ana Matilde Gomez may have put the government of Martin Torrijos in an uncomfortable position in March when she asked the Supreme Court to reopen two three-year-old bribery investigations into a government contract for Centro Multimodal, Industrial y d [...] |
2005-04-07 18:48:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |
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PANAMA TO CONSIDER SUPPORT FOR U.S. CANDIDATE FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-29 21:26:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY |