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Fox News’ Juan Williams and Son Criticized After Homecoming Visit to Panama

July 20, 2012 By Egberto Willies

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Fox News’ Juan Williams and Son Criticized After Homecoming Visit to Panama

Bruno GastonBy Bruno Gaston, International Editor

ATLANTA, July 21, 2012, 6 p.m. – Panamanian activists from the city of Colón are not thrilled with the description of their city offered by political consultant, Raphael Williams who is the son of Fox News contributor, Juan Williams.

Speaking to Fox and Friends anchor, Brian Kilmeade on the fourth of July, Williams talked about the poverty he witnessed during the visit with his father who recounted his parents fleeing a dictatorship decades ago when he was a child.

“It was amazing to me when we went to a church where he was baptized and they had their gold cross stolen…you know the kind of desperateness of these people…and then we went to his [Juan] apartment and I saw five people cramped up into these tiny three room apartments with cockroaches on the floor and bars on the windows,” Raphael said.

“He [Juan] always worked with this kind of energy that I had never understood because he had always provided me such a life of comfort, but it wasn’t until I went back to Colón that I realized that Wow!…no wonder he worked so hard.”

Boston-based activist, Yvette Modestin is from Colón and says the whole story is not being told.

“To talk about Colón, to be real and not make any mistakes, you need to live here or be a frequent visitor.  We are more than barred windows and cockroaches,” she said.

“A person who left as a child and never looked back cannot see the Colón through eyes of truth. Colón’s rise and many may say its demise has many layers but you will need a historical context that includes colonialism, denial of the government, and the end of a segregated era.”

Texas-based political activist, Egberto Willies also blasted the two on his blog after hearing the comments.

“Juan can be excused for not knowing Panamá’s history given that he was two young when he left to understand the politics of the country,” he said.

“What is sad is his son’s reaction to the apartment in Colón. The reality is that Colón as a city has deteriorated since the time we all left (I left in 1979) given that the Panamanian Plutocracy has refused to invest in either the infrastructure or people in that area in any substantial manner.”

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Fox News’ Juan Williams and Son Criticized After Homecoming Visit to Panama

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About Egberto Willies

Egberto Willies is a political activist, author, political blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer in Kingwood, TX. He is an ardent Liberal that believes tolerance is essential. His favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship”. Willies is currently a contributing editor to DailyKos, OpEdNews, and several other Progressive sites. He was a frequent contributor to HuffPost Live. He won the 2nd CNN iReport Spirit Award and was the Pundit of the Week.

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