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There's so much going on in the news right now. So much going on in the news just today.

I do feel like it's one of those times, one of those news days, when it seems like the world is trying to make us feel like we're not alone.

In the nation of Panama, for example, they have a rich conservative businessman who is a former president.

Since leaving the presidency recently, he has... businessman who is a former president.

Since leaving the presidency recently, he has faced multiple criminal charges.

He beat some of those charges, but not all of them.

When he was convicted on money laundering charges recently he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Now the country Supreme Court recently denied his appeal of that conviction,

but then in a dramatic move, another country, Nicaragua,

stepped in and offered him amnesty. And this other country Nicaragua is apparently trying to protect him from going to

jail. This former president of Panama, who again has been convicted, who is due

in prison, he has not gone to prison. Instead, he has moved into the Nicaraguan

embassy in his country because Nicaragua has offered him asylum. He moved in with his

desk and his sofa and his dog who is named Bruno.

And there's Bruno.

From that exile, from that other country's embassy, while he is hiding out from his 10-year prison sentence,

he is now running for President of Panama again.

And he's winning.

According to the New York Times, recent polls show him running in first place.

This convicted, fugitive right-wing businessman, former president now trying to rally his countrymen

saying online, quote, you have to be very cowardly

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