#NewWorldReport: Panama and Guatemala elections entangled by law.. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportElli
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
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#NewWorldReport: Panama and Guatemala elections entangled by law.. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/panama-court-finds-former-president-martinelli-guilty-money-laundering-2023-07-18/
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| 0:32.0 | The New World Report with Professor Evan Ellis, the US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, |
| 0:38.0 | is traveling however he's done me the great favor of joining me to comment on news of elections |
| 0:47.0 | and disordered elections throughout the Americas. |
| 0:50.0 | We begin in Central America with the news item very fresh from Reuters about Panama. |
| 0:57.0 | Ricardo Martinelli, Panama X president sentenced to decades behind bars. |
| 1:03.0 | A Panamanian court sentenced former president Ricardo Martinelli to more than 10 years in prison for money laundering according to the Attorney General. |
| 1:12.0 | Threatening the frontrunners bid for a new term next year. |
| 1:17.0 | There's the twist. Professor a very good evening to you. Martinelli, according to polling, |
| 1:23.0 | is the number one candidate to be president again in the election of 2024. |
| 1:30.0 | At this point, Panama is disordered. |
| 1:33.0 | The election process is disordered because there will be charges of influence peddling and political, |
| 1:41.0 | not legal justice. |
| 1:44.0 | And at the same time, we have the critical fact that Panama is the Darian gap and the cooperation between Panama and interested parties such as the United States about the migrants flowing through the very dangerous gap through Costa Rica all the way to the Mexican border. |
| 2:02.0 | Require good relations between Panama City and Washington. |
| 2:06.0 | Martinelli was a previous president and he's now elected. |
| 2:10.0 | He's now sentenced for money laundering. |
| 2:13.0 | What is the allegation and the conviction for what did he do, Professor? Good evening to you. |
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