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José Domingo Arias: the trail of Odebrecht’s US$16 million in a US$21 million campaign, the US$500,000 of Badger Title and the PAN accounts

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José Domingo Arias

José Domingo Arias was Panama’s Minister of Housing between 2009 and 2013 and the presidential candidate of Cambio Democrático in 2014. He is one of the five former ministers of Ricardo Martinelli prosecuted over Odebrecht’s bribes. This piece does not follow the hearings, but the money. It reconstructs how much his campaign cost according to … Read more about José Domingo Arias: the trail of Odebrecht’s US$16 million in a US$21 million campaign, the US$500,000 of Badger Title and the PAN accounts

Juan Carlos Varela: the former president the United States punished for corruption and whom Panama still cannot bring to trial

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Juan Carlos Varela

Juan Carlos Varela was Vice President of Panama between 2009 and 2014 and President between 2014 and 2019. Together with Ricardo Martinelli, he is one of the two former Panamanian presidents reached by the Odebrecht scandal. However, his case file has an asymmetry that this piece walks through. The US State Department barred him from … Read more about Juan Carlos Varela: the former president the United States punished for corruption and whom Panama still cannot bring to trial