Mark Zuckerberg vs. Barack Obama: guess who’s winning?

After an incredibly pleasant week in Medellin, I departed this morning for Panama where the capital city’s already notoriously painful traffic has become a parking lot in the wake of the Summit of the Americas.

Leaders from most of the Western Hemisphere are here for the summit, including one Barack Hussein Obama.

So you can just imagine the security nightmare. Everything in the city has ground to a halt.

Yet despite all the fanfare for the big bosses who are in attendance, so far it’s been Mark Zuckerberg who has stolen the show.

Yesterday the Facebook co-founder announced that, through his Internet.org foundation, he would provide free Internet access across Panama.

He’s already been doing it successfully in Colombia and several African nations.

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