"... If I were you, I'd be grateful for the "learning" experience you found here. Not only about food poisoning, but the legal jeopardy you were entering by continuing to insist it was caused by XXX restaurant. No one wants to attack anyone personally, it is just that some "newbies" are not aware of the slander laws here. In some ways, we were all trying to protect YOU. I know it may feel as if you were ganged up on, but I feel we need to get the "no slandering in Panama" message out. Even if it is a"true statement" in Panama, unlike in the U. S., you are not protected by being "right", you simply cannot publish negative things about a person or business here. "
A) Young man eats at restaurant
B) Young man becomes violently ill
C) Cause cannot be determined via scientific method
D) Young man is ill-advised to post *any* hypothesis towards public safety.
Point well taken. Even though one of my Panama City lawyers told me that being "right" was enough to defend against a slander, I think - from what I have heard of the judicial system here - a judge or court will decide any which way they might ( shall we say ) be predisposed to decide. And how could one prove such an allegation, if it were in fact strictly an allegation ? Why should a sub-citizen ( in the eyes of the courts ) "play with fire" for zero reward ? Excellent advice, thank you.