{"id":10201,"date":"2014-05-07T16:18:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T21:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=10201"},"modified":"2014-05-08T09:40:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T14:40:48","slug":"panamas-election-seals-a-strong-free-market-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/panamas-election-seals-a-strong-free-market-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama&#8217;s Election Seals A Strong Free Market Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/panama-canal-expansion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10202\" title=\"panama-canal-expansion\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/panama-canal-expansion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/panama-canal-expansion.jpg 720w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/panama-canal-expansion-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Defying polls, conservative Juan Carlos Varela won Panama&#8217;s election  Sunday, showing that five years of free-market policies merit another  five. If he holds course, it&#8217;s the best possible outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody thought the openly conservative Juan Carlos Varela could pull  off a five-year term in Panama. The former vice president had been been  running third in the polls and faced the negative headwinds of Ricardo  Martinelli&#8217;s five-year conservative rule. It especially didn&#8217;t help that  Panama&#8217;s incumbent parties almost always do poorly in successive votes.<\/p>\n<p>But Varela, who is believed to be at least as conservative as his  predecessor, managed to distinguish himself from the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>He did so by breaking with Martinelli in 2011 over the latter&#8217;s  ill-conceived plan to extend his own stay in office, compounded by a  ridiculous and probably unconstitutional move to place his wife, Marta  Linares, on the ticket of his hand-picked candidate, Jose Domingo Arias,  as vice president.<\/p>\n<p>Net effect: Varela was able to run as an anti-corruption outsider, a  better thing for Panama to focus on than a populist referendum on  free-market ideas that is often badly argued, despite Panama&#8217;s 8.2%  average growth rate over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>The left-wing candidate, former Panama City mayor Juan Carlos Navarro, garnered just 28% of the vote. Varela won with 39%.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a resounding vote for continuing the free-market policies that  have opened Panama to the world with free trade, put the nation in the  global trade spotlight with its multibillion-dollar expansion and  ensured the country&#8217;s economic shift from shipping to banking, services,  medical tourism and new entrepreneurship. And it may just open the door  to improving Panama&#8217;s governance as well, if Varela is truly  anti-corruption.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=L_m2EKNhsL0\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10237\" title=\"acp vid\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/acp-vid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/acp-vid.jpg 602w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/acp-vid-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The election not only seals Panama&#8217;s free market orientation, it also  leaves Panama with two competing conservative parties, something  similar to the Tea Party and the GOP, and certainly parallel to  Colombia, where two center-right parties also dominate and compete.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s worth something only if Varela stays the course with what worked during Martinelli&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>Martinelli not only brought growth to Panama, he was also dazzling on  the foreign-policy front, repeatedly showing leadership against the  region&#8217;s dictators in democratic clothing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 114px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nieuws360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ricardo-Martinelli-Panama-500x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He was the first to break with the Latin consensus that Honduras be  isolated after its legislature removed a communist dictator, Mel Zelaya,  from power \u2014 and swung the region his way.<\/p>\n<p>He also spectacularly exposed arms trafficking between Cuba and North  Korea through the Panama Canal, via the power of a Twitter photo \u2014  which meant that the matter could not be covered up.<\/p>\n<p>And when Venezuela exploded into an orgy of government thug-rule last  February, Martinelli was the one Latin American president who blasted  the barbarism and took in thousands of Venezuelan refugees fleeing the  hellhole as the regime cut ties.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the free trade, canal expansion and booming growth, it&#8217;s  an impressive bill to fill. But if Varela means to compete, he will  focus on outdoing these accomplishments \u2014 and making Panama the  hemisphere&#8217;s star. 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