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Caribbean & Central America - December 2010 (ISSN 1741-4458)
PANAMA: Panama-Colombian relations tested
President Ricardo Martinelli has placed a strain on ties with his
Colombian peer, Juan Manuel Santos, following his decision to grant “territorial
asylum" to a former director of the Colombian intelligence service (DAS), who is
a suspect in a major wire-tapping scandal which took place under the previous
Alvaro Uribe administration (2002-2010). Widely believed to be a personal favour
to Uribe, who is also being investigated in relation to this case, the move
deals a knock to a relationship which has otherwise strengthened under
Martinelli, motivated largely by a shared security agenda.
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