Not his father's son?
Promising a break with the past
HE IS the son of one famous military dictator and his party is also that of another, the notorious Manuel Noriega. But Martín Torrijos has persuaded Panamanians that he is the right man to invigorate their democracy. On May 2nd he won a clear victory in a presidential election, gaining some 47% of the votes to 31% for Guillermo Endara, a former president installed in power by the American invasion of 1989, which toppled General Noriega.
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