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Panamanians defend their nation’s honor on social media

[...] order, social media was festooned with multilingual, pro-Panama hashtags, often accompanied by photos of beaches, sunsets, mountains and happy, carefree people: #PanamaParadise, #ILovePanama, #WeArePanama, #WeAreNotPapers and #PanamaIsMoreThanPapers. Some Panamanians have viewed the leak and the resulting international news coverage as an attack on Panamanian sovereignty, or even as a plot by a foreign competitor to wrest banking business away from Panama. According to a recent national poll by the Panamanian research firm Dichter & Neira, 91 percent of respondents believed that the Panama Papers affair had “greatly” affected the country’s image.

 

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