Police Chief Perez Transfers Administrative Staff to Colon in Retribution
The entire staff of the Archives Department of the National Police was transferred on Tuesday to work in Colon. It is suspected this action was taken as retaliation for the leaking to the press of a copy of the file of the current Chief of the National Police, Gustavo Perez, in which a disciplinary board recommended a dishonorable discharge in March of 1990. (Source - La Estrella)
Editor's Comment: And thus it begins. In my estimation this move was a huge strategic error on the part of Gustavo Perez. As I have predicted in the past, Gustavo Perez is currently in the process of changing or morphing from an asset for Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli, into a political albatross. Obviously this action to transfer administrative workers of the National Police - the entire staff of the archives section where the notorious memo from 1990 was stored - to work in Colon was a punitive action on his part. Punitive, as in punishment. No trial, no hearing, just make an arbitrary decision and issue the order. Sending someone who lives in Panama City to work in Colon is kinda like being ordered to the Western Front. When you screw up, you're sent to Siberia, like that. And, since Gustavo Perez doesn't know who leaked the memo he's apparently assuming it had to have been someone who worked in that office, so transfer them all. In other words, shoot them all and let God sort them out. In my humble opinion this appears to be an action taken by a man desperate to hide the truth and facts of the case, and to run from his own past. If he has nothing to hide and if he wants to cooperate fully with any investigation, then why does he have to make the lives of these people more difficult? Again, I don't see how Gustavo Perez can survive this scandal politically speaking. And after the news today, I think the fuse is burning and that sooner or later Ricardo Martinelli will be forced to cut him loose, "like a bad 'chute." It's only a matter of time. The only remaining question - how long will it take? This headline today didn't help Gustavo Perez, at all.
