1.   By law, management positions in the news media are reserved for Panamanian citizens.

2.   The last banker to be kidnapped in Panama was Panamanian citizen Sam Kardonsky.

3.   A jury has convicted a former Panamanian soldier for the killings of a US and a Panamanian citizen during the US invasion of Panama six years ago.

4.   Berenson and Pacifico Castrellon, a Panamanian citizen who was also arrested, are accused of renting a house in Lima that the MRTA used as a headquarters.