Eric Jackson

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Born 12/29/52 in Colón, Panama, to American parents. Dual US-Panamanian citizen living in central Panama but lived 28 years in the USA, mostly in Ypsilanti, Michigan. No high school diploma. BS, history and political science, Eastern Michigan University. JD, the old Detroit College of Law. Blogger and journalist in the underground / alternative press going way back, does The Panama News since 1994.

Pronouns he and his -- but at times would like to be it and its, as in "Oh my God , it's ALIVE!"

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Eric JacksonJul 6, 2023
Martinelli raids the Liberals
https://www.thepanamanews.com/2023/07/martinelli-raids-the-liberals/
Martinelli raids the Liberals

Ricardo Martinelli with a group of activists who have quit MOLIRENA — the Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement — to join his Realizando Metas party. Most prominent in this photo, in …

The Panama News
Eric JacksonJul 6, 2023
STRI, La desigualdad en la gobernanza de los océanos y la ciencia oceánica
https://www.thepanamanews.com/2023/07/stri-la-desigualdad-en-la-gobernanza-de-los-oceanos-y-la-ciencia-oceanica/
STRI, La desigualdad en la gobernanza de los océanos y la ciencia oceánica

Investigadores multidisciplinarios de los trópicos del mundo publican un nuevo artículo en el que sugieren que la clave de la conservación de los océanos puede encontrarse en la mayoría tropical. U…

The Panama News
Eric JacksonJul 6, 2023

Sin Minería and 40 groups, Defeat the proposed new copper mine contract

https://www.thepanamanews.com/2023/07/sin-mineria-and-40-groups-defeat-the-proposed-new-copper-mine-contract/

Sin Minería and 40 groups, Defeat the proposed new copper mine contract

From the @sinmineria Twitter feed. Emergency statement about the impositionof an illegal contract with Minera Panama by the Movimiento Panamá Vale Más Sin Minería, translation from the Spanish by E…

The Panama News
Eric JacksonJul 5, 2023

Waiting on Judge Baloisa Marquínez

https://www.thepanamanews.com/2023/07/waiting-on-judge-baloisa-marquinez/

Waiting on Judge Baloisa Marquínez

Second Liquidator Judge for Penal Cases in Panama Province Baloisa Marquínez. Ricardo Martinelli, his phalanxes of lawyers, his swarms of online trolls and his newspapers have been vilifying her fo…

The Panama News
Eric JacksonJul 5, 2023

NOTHING is just as it used to be. You think that time freezes just to satisfy your nostalgia? That said, the urban policies reflected here range from the abominable, through the negligent, to the acceptable and with a few bright spots. This and all the other photos on this page by Allan Hawkins V.

https://www.thepanamanews.com/2023/07/hawkins-ancon-balboa-and-balboa-heights-on-fourth-of-july-morning/

Hawkins: Ancon, Balboa and Balboa Heights on Fourth of July morning

NOTHING is just as it used to be. You think that time freezes just to satisfy your nostalgia? That said, the urban policies reflected here range from the abominable, through the negligent, to the a…

The Panama News
Eric JacksonJul 4, 2023

Villalba Felipe, Diabetes: se vislumbra una nueva esperanza en el horizonte

https://www.thepanamanews.com/2023/07/villalba-felipe-diabetes-se-vislumbra-una-nueva-esperanza-en-el-horizonte/

Villalba Felipe, Diabetes: se vislumbra una nueva esperanza en el horizonte

Foto por Lukasz Pawel Szczepanski — Shutterstock. Diabetes: crónica de una cura anunciada por Adrián Villalba Felipe, Inserm La diabetes es, sin duda, uno de los mayores desafíos sanitarios d…

The Panama News
Eric JacksonJul 4, 2023
Editorial: Fourth of July
https://www.thepanamanews.com/2023/07/editorial-fourth-of-july/
Editorial, Fourth of July

They said he couldn’t tell a lie. The cherry tree story is fiction. Actually, General George Washington pulled off some crafty military ruses, and at the Constitutional Convention he presided over …

The Panama News
Eric JacksonJul 3, 2023

Barber’s “Moral Declaration for America”

https://www.thepanamanews.com/2023/07/barbers-moral-declaration-for-america/

Barber’s “Moral Declaration for America”

“It is time for people with a moral conscience to wield every ounce of influence and power they have towards justice and to force this nation to be true to what it said on paper.” Bisho…

The Panama News
Eric JacksonJul 3, 2023
Eric JacksonJul 2, 2023