El presidente electo José Raúl Mulino, repitió la fórmula de otros gobiernos al momento de designar el director del Instituto para la Formación y el Aprovechamiento de los Recursos Humanos (Ifarhu), entidad que ha estado en la mira pública por los escándalos con la distribución política del millonario programa de auxilios económicos.

El nuevo jefe de esa institución Jaime Díaz es uno de los líderes de la juventud de su partido Realizando Metas (RM), estrategia que empleó el gobierno de Laurentino Cortizo, cuando encargó a Bernardo Meneses en ese puesto, quien fungía como secretario del frente de la juventud del Partido Revolucionario Democrático (PRD).

La nominación de Díaz para el Ifarhu surgió el pasado jueves 27 de junio. De acuerdo con un comunicado de la Oficina del Presidente Electo, en su equipo estarán Gabriel Cajiga y María García como secretaria general.

Una vez se dio a conocer la noticia, la cuenta de la juventud de RM en Instagram, lo felicitó.

Según el boletín de prensa de la oficina del presidente electo, Díaz tiene una licenciatura en comercio internacional de la Universidad Interamericana de Panamá y un máster en administración y dirección de empresas de Eude Business School, Madrid, España. De acuerdo con los planes del gobierno que tomará el control del país el próximo 1 de julio, los nombrados, realizarán una auditoría para conocer la realidad de las ayudas económicas y transformar esos beneficios en préstamos si fueron otorgados en forma irregular. Además, afirman que las ayudas económicas se otorgarán por mérito a estudiantes cuyo ingreso familiar no supere los $2,000 mensuales.

Una base de datos interactiva elaborada por La Prensa reveló que el Ifarhu otorgó subsidios no reembolsables a familiares de varios altos funcionarios, incluyendo a una sobrina del propio presidente Cortizo. Sin embargo, el Ifarhu ha mantenido en secreto el nombre de casi 3 mil beneficiarios de los auxilios económicos que se repartieron entre el 7 de julio de 2019 y el 24 de mayo de 2023. Eso implicó un desembolso de al menos $141.6 millones.

Otros casos

Sin embargo, la práctica también se ha dado en otros gobiernos. Juan Carlos Varela (2014-2019) nombró a Yesenia Rodríguez, quien era la secretaria de la Mujer del Partido Panameñista, por aquella época.

Mientras que el Martín Torrijos (2004-2009) designó a Samuel Buitrago, quien era dirigente de la juventud perredista y miembro del poderoso Comité Ejecutivo Nacional.

Ernesto Pérez Balladares (1994-1999) designó a Héctor Alemán, un histórico dirigente del PRD.

Jun 28, 21:57 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has confirmed that this incident has been fully resolved.

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Jun 28, 21:18 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has taken actions to mitigate the issue affecting intermittent request failures for Spaces in NYC3 and is monitoring the situation.

The impact has subsided and users should be able to interact with Spaces normally.

We will post an update once we confirm this incident is fully resolved.

Jun 28, 20:37 UTC
Update - Our Engineering team is continuing to investigate the root cause of the issue with intermittent request failures for Spaces in NYC3. Observed error rates are trending down to pre-incident levels, but may spike again.

We will provide an update as soon as we have additional information.

Jun 28, 19:04 UTC
Investigating - Beginning around 17:40 UTC, Our Engineering team is investigating an issue impacting Spaces in our NYC3 region. During this time, users may encounter intermittent request failures for Spaces in NYC3. Additionally, load times for objects in that region may be slower.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused and will provide further updates as soon as possible.

Jun 27, 23:57 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has confirmed that this incident has been fully resolved.

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Jun 27, 23:22 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue for Droplets with previously failed events has been remediated, and further events should now successfully complete.

We are continuing to monitor this situation and will post an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved.

Jun 27, 21:12 UTC
Update - Our Engineering team has completed deployment of the fix. No additional users should now experience event failures.

Droplets that experienced failed events are now being remediated to fix their event state, so that future events can succeed normally.

We will provide another update once the remediation step is complete.

Jun 27, 20:54 UTC
Identified - Beginning around 16:00 UTC, our Engineering team identified an uptick in event errors for Droplets that utilize a Reserved IP in multiple regions. A subset of users are experiencing errors in processing events, especially "power on", via both API and the Cloud Control Panel.

Our team has identified the root cause of the issue and a fix is currently in progress.

We will provide another update once the fix is confirmed.

Jun 26, 14:10 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has confirmed the full resolution of the issue impacting the Managed Kubernetes cluster creation. As of 12:18 UTC the functionality has been restored completely and users should be able to deploy new clusters via Cloud Control Panel and API.

If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Jun 26, 13:36 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has deployed a fix for the issue impacting the Managed Kubernetes cluster creation across all regions. The impact has been mitigated and users should no longer experience any issues deploying new clusters via Cloud Control panel and API.

We are monitoring the situation and will post an update once the incident is completely resolved.

Jun 26, 12:05 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue impacting our Managed Kubernetes service in all regions. Beginning 11:10 UTC, users may have experienced errors while creating new clusters using Control panel and API.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.

El ultimo informe del Departamento de Epidemiología del Ministerio de Salud (Minsa) muestra que hasta el 20 de junio, se han reportado un total de 48 defunciones relacionadas con la influenza, con un incremento de 6 fallecimientos en la última semana.

Panamá Oeste lidera las estadísticas con 11 defunciones, seguido de cerca por Chiriquí, con 9, y Panamá metro con 6. Otras regiones también han sido afectadas, como Coclé, con 5 defunciones, y el resto de las regiones con números menores, incluyendo Bocas del Toro, Los Santos, San Miguelito, y Veraguas, entre otras.

Entre las víctimas, se cuenta con 10 menores de edad, incluyendo un bebé de apenas 10 meses en Bocas del Toro, además de 38 adultos mayores de 65 años.

¡Convierte el lavado de manos en un hábito! Lavarte las manos con agua y jabón es una de las maneras más efectivas de prevenir enfermedades. #MinsaPreviene pic.twitter.com/Xr9EaDf03L

— Ministerio de Salud de Panamá (@MINSAPma) June 23, 2024

El informe detalla que el 96% de las defunciones ocurrieron en personas que no estaban vacunadas contra la influenza y presentaban factores de riesgo como problemas metabólicos, cardiovasculares, y enfermedades respiratorias.

Además, 122 personas continúan hospitalizadas debido a la enfermedad respiratoria, de las cuales 18 están en unidades de cuidados intensivos. Los hospitales con más hospitalizados son el Complejo Hospitalario Dr. Arnulfo Arias Madrid, el Hospital Regional Nicolás A. Solano, y Ciudad de la Salud, entre otros, donde se está brindando atención especializada.

Ante esta situación, el Minsa hace un llamado urgente a la población para que participe en la jornada de vacunación contra la influenza, que se está llevando a cabo en diversos centros hospitalarios y espacios públicos del país. Esta iniciativa busca prevenir nuevos casos y reducir la gravedad de la enfermedad entre los grupos más vulnerables.

Jun 27, 12:00 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Jun 27, 10:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Jun 24, 10:27 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2024-06-27 10:00 UTC
End: 2024-06-27 12:00 UTC

During the above window, our Networking team will be performing maintenance on core switches in our NYC1 datacenter as part of network upgrades. This is a rescheduled maintenance event previously scheduled for 2024-06-11 10:00 UTC.

Expected Impact:

We anticipate brief interruptions in network traffic from Droplets and Droplet-based services. This impact would be for a duration of 5 to 10 seconds and could occur a few times within the maintenance window. We will endeavor to keep any such impact to a minimum.

We apologize for any inconvenience this short notice causes and thank you for your understanding. If you have any questions related to this issue please send us a ticket from your cloud support page using https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket


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Jun 25, 16:30 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Jun 25, 12:30 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Jun 23, 15:21 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2024-06-25 12:30 UTC
End: 2024-06-25 16:30 UTC

During the above window, our Networking team will be making changes to core networking infrastructure, to improve performance and scalability in the BLR1 region.

Expected impact:

These upgrades are designed and tested to be seamless and we do not expect any impact to customer traffic due to this maintenance. If an unexpected issue arises, affected Droplets and Droplet-based services may experience increased latency or a brief disruption in network traffic. We will endeavor to keep any such impact to a minimum.

If you have any questions related to this issue please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket

Jun 19, 23:04 UTC
Resolved - Our engineering team has resolved the issue with creating a monitoring alert in the Monitoring section of the Cloud Control Panel.

Thank you for your patience. If you continue to experience any problems, please open a support ticket from within your account.

Jun 19, 22:22 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has implemented a fix regarding the issue with creating a monitoring alert in the Monitoring section of the Cloud Control Panel. We are monitoring the situation to ensure there is no recurrence.

We will post another update once we confirm the issue is fully resolved.

Jun 19, 19:25 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue impacting our Monitoring Alerts service.

During this time, users may have been experiencing errors or unexpected delays while trying to create monitoring alerts via Cloud Control Panel.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will post an update as soon as we have additional information.

La Autoridad Nacional de Administración de Tierras (Anati), que fue centro de varios escándalos de titulación durante el gobierno de Ricardo Martinelli Berrocal (2009-2014), será dirigida por un abogado que se desempeñó como diplomático durante ese quinquenio y que además tiene una estrecha relación con Luis Enrique “Quique” Martinelli Linares.

Se trata de Andrés Fernando Pagés Chanis, quien fue designado este lunes 17 de junio como administrador de la Anati por el presidente electo José Raúl Mulino. Rosario Cárdenas será la subadministradora. Los nombramientos todavía debes ser ratificado por la Asamblea Nacional.

En el comunicado que divulgó la oficina de Mulino se informó que Pagés se ha desempeñado como asistente de defensor de oficio en el Órgano Judicial, abogado en la firma Kosmas & Kosmas y socio en el bufete Borrell Cano Pagés. También se anotó que “laboró en la Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y para la Sociedad de la Información del Ministerio de Industrias, Turismo y Comercio de Madrid”, España.

Andres Pagés (Izq.) y Luis Enrique Martinelli.

Lo que no se dijo es que fue cónsul de Panamá en Dubai, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, en la administración de Martinelli. Incluso, le acompaño en un viaje oficial que este realizó en el año 2010. En la comitiva, además, estaban el entonces vicepresidente de la República, Juan Carlos Varela, y Riccardo Francolini, presidente de la junta directiva de la Caja de Ahorros en aquella época.

pic.twitter.com/akPHvy0SzP

— Presidencia de la República de Panamá (@presidenciapma) June 17, 2024

Hay otro socio de Borrell Cano Pages que se sumará al gobierno de Mulino. Se trata del abogado Juan Francisco Borrell, que fue designado viceministro de Gobierno. Como Pages, Borrell también trabajó en Kosmas & Kosmas, la firma de Jorge Kosmas, embajador y cónsul de Panamá en Japón entre 2009-2014.

Varios escándalos en la Anati (Juan Hombrón, el relleno del florista…) dejaron al descubierto el lucrativo negocio de la titulación casi gratuita de tierras en la administración Martinelli, a favor de allegados al poder, incluyendo ministros.

Lea aquí la nota titulada 'Tierras, el millonario negocio del quinquenio Martinelli'

Para eso fue fundamental la aprobación de la Ley 80 del 31 de diciembre de 2009, que reconoce derechos posesorios de tierras nacionales y regula la titulación de las zonas costeras y el territorio insular, a favor de cualquier persona que demuestre haber ejercido el dominio material “con ánimo de dueño”, por cinco años o más.

Jun 18, 13:15 UTC
Resolved - As of 13.10 UTC, our Engineering team has confirmed full resolution of networking in our SFO region.

If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team from your Cloud Control Panel. Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience.

Jun 18, 12:03 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has confirmed that the fix implemented earlier was successful in mitigating the issue with connectivity in our SFO regions. Users should now be able to connect to their Droplet and Droplet-based services without any issues.

At this time, all services should now be operating normally. We will monitor this incident for a short period of time to confirm full resolution.

Jun 18, 10:25 UTC
Identified - As of 09:40 UTC, our Engineering team has identified the cause and applied a fix to mitigate the connectivity issue impacting the entire SFO region. We are still looking into this failure, but users should be seeing improvements in reaching their Droplet and Droplet-based services.

We'll continue to monitor the situation to confirm this incident is fully resolved and will post an update soon.

Jun 18, 09:05 UTC
Update - Our Engineering team is continuing to investigate the issue with connectivity in our SFO regions. During this time, users may encounter errors and connection timeouts for Droplet and Droplet-based resources in the SFO region. Our team is diligently working on identifying and mitigating the issue at the earliest.

We regret any inconvenience caused and will post an update as additional information is available.

Jun 18, 08:38 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue with connectivity in our SFO regions. During this time users may experience connection timeouts and errors for Droplet and Droplet-based resources.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.

Jun 17, 19:37 UTC
Resolved - From 17:02 - 18:44 UTC, the Spaces API experienced availability dips. These dips caused Spaces bucket operations in SGP1 for a subset of users to experience latency or 503 errors.

The fix implemented by our Engineering team has been monitored and availability for the Spaces API is stable. Users should be able to interact with their Spaces buckets successfully.

If you continue to experience any issues, please reach out to the Support team from within your account.

Jun 17, 19:07 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has identified and implemented a fix for an issue impacting Spaces SGP1 region. We are now monitoring the situation closely and will post an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved. Thank you for your patience!

Jun 17, 18:49 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue with spaces in SGP1 region. During this time, users may experience 503 errors while accessing bucket operations. We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.

Jun 19, 02:00 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Jun 18, 22:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Jun 16, 18:24 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2024-06-18 22:00 UTC
End: 2024-06-19 02:00 UTC

During the above window, our Networking team will be making changes to our core networking infrastructure to improve performance and scalability in the NYC3 region. This will be the second of the two maintenance activities performed by our team in the region on consecutive days.

Expected Impact:

These upgrades are designed and tested to be seamless and we do not expect any impact to customer traffic due to this maintenance. If an unexpected issue arises, affected Droplets and Droplet-based services may experience a temporary loss of private connectivity between VPCs. We will endeavor to keep any such impact to a minimum.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this maintenance, please reach out to us by opening up a ticket on your account via https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket.

Jun 18, 02:00 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Jun 17, 22:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Jun 15, 12:44 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2024-06-17 22:00 UTC
End: 2024-06-18 02:00 UTC

During the above window, our Networking team will be making changes to our core networking infrastructure to improve performance and scalability in the NYC3 region. This maintenance will occur in two parts on consecutive days and we will send another maintenance notice for the second phase.

Expected Impact:

These upgrades are designed and tested to be seamless and we do not expect any impact to customer traffic due to this maintenance. If an unexpected issue arises, affected Droplets and Droplet-based services may experience a temporary loss of private connectivity between VPCs. We will endeavor to keep any such impact to a minimum.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this maintenance, please reach out to us by opening up a ticket on your account via https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket.