Cinta Costera Opens!

After weeks of on-off announcements, discussions of whether it was a waste of money or a boon to the city, concrete surrounded by grass or grass surrounded by concrete, Panama’s Cinta Costera (Coastal Strip) was opened to the public…(click for more)

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     With the web, we don’t care about national boundaries, languages, ideologies, and such. That’s so pre-21st century! Let’s face it, the art of diplomacy is an utter failure. Nations still go to war for trivial reasons, people are trapped in cultures and religions they didn’t choose and don’t like, forced to live with dogmatic incompetents and criminals within borders which make no sense… Read the rest of this entry »