Ernesto Pérez Balladares
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Panama...high expectations. Its new police force was a major improvement over its predecessor but was not fully able to deter crime. Ernesto Perez Balladares was sworn in as President on September 1, 1994, after an internationally monitored election... In this article: Panama, Manuel Noriega, United States, Panama Canal, Caribbean, Martin Torrijos, Pacific Ocean, Panama City, and Ernesto Perez Balladares |
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Wikipedia | November 04, 2009
Ricardo Martinelli
He is chairman of two other companies and sits on the boards of at least eight other companies. During the presidency of Ernesto Perez Balladares, Martinelli served as Director of Social Security from 1994 to 1996. From September 1999...
In this article: Ricardo Martinelli, New York Yankees, Social Security, Balbina Herrera, and Patriotic Union Party
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Wikipedia | October 19, 2009
Martin Torrijos
...of St. John's Northwestern Military Academy located in Delafield, Wisconsin. During the presidency of Ernesto Perez Balladares (1994-1999) he served as deputy minister for the interior and justice. His most significant achievement as deputy...
In this article: Martin Torrijos, Arnulfista Party, Solidarity Party, Mireya Moscoso, George W. Bush, Panama, and Puerto Rico
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Wikipedia | October 19, 2009
Ernesto Perez Balladares
...(born June 29,1946 in Panama City) was the President of Panama between 1994 and 1999. Nicknamed "El Toro" (The Bull), Ernesto Perez Balladares is married to Dora Boyd Preciado, with 3 daughters. Ernesto Perez Balladares graduated from...
In this article: Ernesto Perez Balladares Gonzalez Revilla, World Trade Organization, Mireya Moscoso, Martin Torrijos, Panama, Panama City, United States, Beneficiary, and Democratic Revolutionary Party
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Wikipedia | October 07, 2009
Zak Hernandez
...(then President of the National Assembly and head of the PRD party) to "surrender himself" to Panamanian President Ernesto Perez Balladares. After two years of confinement, Gonzalez Pinzon was acquitted in a 1997 trial marred by witness...
In this article: Pedro Miguel Gonzalez Pinzon, Zak Hernandez, Panama City, United States, U.S. Congress, and Panama
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Wikipedia | October 05, 2009
Herasto Reyes
In 1992 he was awarded the UNICEF Press Award for his work for child rights. The president of Panama at that time, Ernesto Perez Balladares, filed a libel suit against Reyes in August 1998, after Reyes had accused the administration of...
In this article: Panama, University of Panama, and Las Tablas, Los Santos
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Wikipedia | October 04, 2009
Palacio de las Garzas
...residence and main office for all Panamanian presidents except for the last three (Martin Torrijos, Mireya Moscoso, and Ernesto Perez Balladares) who have chosen to keep their residences elsewhere in the city and commute to the Palace.
In this article: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Panama City, Ricardo Miro, National bank, Mireya Moscoso, and Martin Torrijos
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L.A. Times - Latin America | September 29, 2009
Guillermo Endara dies at 73; led Panama to democracy after U.S. invasion
...lost to the Democratic Revolutionary Party, the former political arm of the military. As he handed over the presidency to Ernesto Perez Balladares, Endara expressed confidence his achievements would be recognized in the long run. "When...
In this article: Guillermo Endara, Democracy, Manuel Noriega, U.S., Panama City, Arnulfista Party, Panama, Democratic Revolutionary Party, and George H.W. Bush
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Wikipedia | June 26, 2009
Instituto Oncologico Nacional
...Oncologico Nacional) "Juan Demostenes Arosemena" is created. On June 3, 1999, the Panamanian Government, on President Ernesto Perez Balladares administration, gives buildings 242 and 254 of the former Gorgas Hospital to the Institute, and...
In this article: Cancer, Instituto Oncologico Nacional, International Atomic Energy Agency, Juan Demostenes Arosemena, Panama, Pan American Health Organization, and Santo Tomas Hospital
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Miami Herald - Americas | April 10, 2009
First Summit of the Americas: Leaders who fell to corruption
...drug traffickers who moved tons of cocaine through the poor Caribbean nation, sources told The Miami Herald in April 2004. Ernesto Perez Balladares, president of Panama from 1994 to 1999, had his U.S. entry visa withdrawn for alleged ties...
In this article: Arnoldo Aleman, Fabian Alarcon, The Miami Herald, Alfonso Portillo, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, Carlos Menem, and Washington
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Wikipedia | April 10, 2009
History of Panama (1977-present)
...not fully able to deter crime. In 1992 he would have received 2.4 percent of the vote if there had been an election. Ernesto Perez Balladares was sworn in as President on September 1 1994, after an internationally monitored election...
In this article: United States, Martin Torrijos, Panama, Manuel Noriega, Jimmy Carter, Panama Canal, Guillermo Endara, Panama City, and Mireya Moscoso
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Ernesto Pérez Balladares González Revilla (born June 29,1946 in Panama City) was the President of Panama between 1994 and 1999.
Ernesto Pérez Balladares graduated from a school of Chiriqui Province and from the Universities of Notre Dame and Pennsylvania, earning a master degree in economics (1967-1969) and marketing (1970). From 1971 to 1975, he was credit officer of the City Bank for Panama and Central America.
In 1975, he was selected by the dictator Omar Torrijos to be the Minister of Economy and Finances.
In March 1979, he was one of the co-founders of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD). He was picked to be the Secretary of the Party in 1982. In 1984, he announced that he founded a new political party, the People's Nationalist Party (PNP). Later it disappeared for not having enough support.
Although never proven, it is widely accepted in Panama that Pérez Balladares held a sizable fortune for General Omar Torrijos, and upon his death in 1981, he basically inherited these stolen funds. There is no other real explanation for his sudden multi-million dollar fortune, the son of a humble country physician who's only previous jobs were that of a low-ranking local branch bank officer, and then minister of economy with a modest salary.
At the beginning of 1991, he returned to his former party as the Secretary of the Party.
In May 1994, he won the elections with 33.3% of the vote against Mireya Moscoso of the Arnulfista Party, who got the 24.9%, and the singer Rubén Blades of the Father Egoro's Movement.
His government was characterized by pro-free market policies. Under his rule, both the electric and telephone companies were privatized and, in 1997, Panama entered the World Trade Organization (WTO)
He left government on August 31 1999.
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