WAS FORMER PANAMANIAN PRESIDENT PAID $15,000 PER HEAD TO ADMIT ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM RED CHINA?
Al Santoli reports in the August 18 edition of China Reform Monitor that “Panama’s outgoing president Ernesto Perez Balladares, the head of Panama’s intelligence agency, and high-level Panamanian customs officials have been accused of participating in the systematic smuggling of Chinese aliens — who intended to proceed to the United States — into Panama at $15,000 a head the Miami Herald reports. The U.S. Department of Justice reportedly believes the U.S. State Department may have purposely undermined their investigation of the case.” Excerpts from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin of June 15, 1999 PANAMA IS MORE IMPORTANT TO U.S. THAN BOSNIA Pat Buchanan was interviewed by Chris Matthews on the June 3 edition of CNBC’s Hardball: PAT BUCHANAN: “[Y]ou’ve got Chinese Communists down there in Panama in the canal zone.” CHRIS MATTHEWS: “What are they doing?” PAT BUCHANAN: “[T]hey got the Hutchinson Whampoa at both ends of the canal. These companies are controlled by Communist