The Writer Panamanian Guillermo Sanchez Bourbon speaks of his native Bocas Del Toro as one place 'beautiful', where he was very happy. Its afternoon were engraved by the waters of the river the silence, on whose shores was his family. There, between bananas, sea, river and jungle, developed his imaginary staff. The Frontier Province was the hotbed of the narrative that then would be reflected in ' the drowned ', a novel in the author's signature as Tristan Solarte.
The exotic places of the province also inspired by the work of Rafael Pernet and morals, and her six books and booklets, among others, 'Loma hot and dressed of sun'.
The Recondita region
Bocas Del Toro was until the year 2000 the treasure of the premises, living smoothly between acquaintances and the remoteness of the panamanian capital. In just over 16 years has gone on to be the sad the reputation of being a destination for tourists who have suffered tragic fate.
Interested in the purity of their nature, the wildness of its waves and a hospital setting, the visitors are arriving now from all sides and with that influx have arrived also international problems.
In the year 2010, the country used to seeing Bocas Del Toro from afar, fixed his attention on Isla colon when William Dathan Holbert, better known as 'Wild Bill', killed five people to seize their properties. A practice that holbert brought from the United States and other countries in Central America, and with which in Panama was intended to become a great farmer. E 'INVESTOR'.
According to versions of other foreigners who knew him then, holbert had parties and inviting all entrepreneurs and investors in order to gain their trust and find out details of their fortunes. When confirmed that they had property for sale or accumulated fortunes began to plan the crimes.
In addition to the crimes for which holbert remains stuck in a prison of chiriqui, it is suspected to be responsible for the disappearance of five bocatoreños, who used to bury their victims.
This week, the prosecution has requested for the ' Wild Bill ' 33 years in prison, that he would pay in Panama, while his new wife, a chiricana of not more than 25 years waiting for you to ' rebuild their lives. '
The Dutch
To lissanne froon and Kris Kremers, apparently 'they drink the earth' in 2014, just the 1 of April, when they entered alone on the path the pianist in the district of boquete, a jungle area that connects the provinces Of chiriquí and Bocas Del Toro, from where they started his fateful adventure.
In search of young women, whose signature is still not accurate, participated the security authorities of Panama, rescuers from Holland, their country of origin, and trained dogs, plus some pathologists Dutch.
Between June and August 2014, they found some remains and they were delivered to their families on 12 November 2014. Nothing more has been heard of the case.
Almost a year after the disappearance of the Dutch young found drowned the taxi driver who transported to foreign women towards the path the pianist.
There hasn't been arrested by the case, which has not been resolved.
English
However, long before ' Wild Bill ' and the case of the Netherlands, in the year 2009 was reported to the authorities the disappearance of Alex Humphrey, a British citizen of 29 years, they don't knew more when One day left their belongings in the hostal beiro and just popped out for a walk with his passport and credit card.
The European was last seen in the spa majagua, Cuba, in the city of David, where he asked how I could go back to boquete. There is no record of departure of Humphrey.
For this case nor has there been arrested, no suspects.
Death and alibis
The Landscape of the island of carenero, located in front of island Columbus, was the last place where Yvonne Lee Baldelli left a smile.
On 26 November 2011, her boyfriend Brian Brimager, an ex-Military American, the murdered and butchered.
Brimager confessed to two years after the murder that she was hiding with an elaborate and complex alibi. In 2016 he was sentenced to 26 years in prison in a federal court in San Diego, California, United States of America.
These facts to share the stage joined this week the death of Catherine Johannet, of whom it was revealed for the first time by an alert from relatives onfacebook. The Past 5th of February, when the panamanian authorities they found his body in a path of Isla bastimentos, had already been alerted about his disappearance and never met the causes of their death, which turned out to be by strangulation. Catherine had arrived to Isla colon, Bocas Del Toro, on vacation, with some friends.
The last record with life of the young man was on Friday, 3, when apparently paid a ride from Columbus to bastimentos island.
The FBI has been involved in the case of that there's still no one of course.
The National Police (PN) has made fifteen raids in Bocas Del Toro and has captured eight people, after the murder of the young American, but also remember that for now, there is no evidence to prosecute the detainees.
The Minister of security, Alexis Bethancourt, moved to Bocas Del Toro and noted that before the murder of johannet had decided to strengthen the safety and security in the province.
A Paradise militarized and been absent
Although the diagnosis easy it could be a flagrant 'absence of security', life in the western region of the country that shares a border between Panama and Costa Rica is much more complex.
So explains angel Ricardo Martinez, Panamanian journalist who lives and works in Colón Island for a couple of years.
For him journalist, Bocas Del Toro is the best place to live in the republic of Panama, for their conditions of paradise, keep the warmth that he longs for the capital and was lost forever ago barely twenty years old.
In Bocas Del Toro, there's no lock because you don't need a car, the rent is cheaper than in the city, the services of the internet and cell phone are pretty good and there is none in the entire country a place with a greater concentration per capita of interesting people , Sean Panamanians, tourists or expatriates, he says.
Without forgetting that all paradise has a cost, 'the food is expensive, health is very bad and educational options are very limited', so it has a lot of locals, who were born and grew up in mouths or are prisoners of their personal paradise or the need Off to other places.
This is how tourism is the only thing that sustains, so 'irregular', to the locals.
Boosted at the international level, Bocas Del Toro is a destiny ' top ', especially for the lovers of nature, the ' easy going ', the travelling alone, the confident... without realizing it, are put in danger.
With the label of ' Visit Panama ', sells adventure tourism, without security and police presence is all there is to avoid problems ', says Martinez.
It was also submitted to the multicultural tourist offer to the imposition of long periods of dry law, including musical censorship at Easter, one of the weekends most anticipated and necessary for the local tourist industry.
The growing demand for tourist proposals is rooting for an inordinate amount of construction with the same irregularities that suffers from Panama City and generates the discontent of the neighbors of Bocas Del Toro, whose local government approves constructions in the middle of the main road that not only destroy the local architecture, But sometimes they don't have absolutely nothing to do with tourism, which reduces the attractiveness of the island.
In addition, barely a plane, 'two women put a table at the airport to collect taxes to foreigners', he questioned the journalist, as a resident of island Columbus.
Between the military presence, the mess, and the exuberance of nature, the tourists arrive in a province that looks like ' no man's land ', where any adventure is possible, but, as evidenced by the incidents. Also, you can lose your life.
While the tragic mysteries that hides the province are resolved, the storms of public order sanction of viva voice to that goes with the lathe (young naked, put on the shirt! ) or take a can of beer in my hand or sinful attitude.
In This regime peculiar that goes against their main source of income: Tourism and nature, Bocas Del Toro is still ene l world map as an attractive destination. To keep it that way will depend on the ability of the authorities to solve facts of blood that, unfortunately, happens everywhere in the world, also in this paradise of Panama.
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