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Written by ca.news.yahoo.com
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011 11:51 |
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( ca.news.yahoo.com) A Panamanian diplomat who donned a lace dress and with a banana in his bustline for carnival in Spain has offered to resign amid outrage at home over the gender bending display.
Italo Afu, Panama's consul in the Spanish Canary Islands, on Monday apologized profusely.
"Given the distaste in Panama over my behavior, I have decided to offer the foreign ministry my resignation and they can make the decision they see as appropriate," Afu told Telemetro.
"I do not want to harm anyone, much less my country," he said.
Officials in Panama, where the celebration is decidedly tamer than in the Canaries, were not amused.
"He should not have done it," President Ricardo Martinelli said.
"Couldn't he have dressed up like a pirate -- or a sailor -- or even Donald Duck?" asked a cross Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Varela.
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Date Retrieved: March 29, 2011.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:09 |
This guy really deserves to be sacked! In the world of diplomats, they walk on eggshells and to "let his hair down" in that manner he deserves a kick in the ass and told he's stupid!
In fact, he should be barred from public service forever.