Former president Ricardo Martinelli has lived there with his dog Bruno since February, avoiding arrest on a money laundering conviction that barred him from the presidential ballot. Panama's former president Ricardo Martinelli in June 2023. The two men met when Trump opened a hotel in Panama’s tallest skyscraper while Martinelli was president. Instead, the man who inhabited Panama’s presidential palace for five years to 2014 has now made himself at home in the small embassy in a quiet residential street, receiving politicians, friends and workers. Panama's presidential candidate José Raúl Mulino.

Source: The Irish Times May 03, 2024 06:20 UTC