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Casa Bruja's Fula Farmacia Blond Ale sells for $1.95 at Bodega Mi Amiga.

"Right now beer is a trend," Bernardo Rivas, the owner of Bodega Mi Amiga tells me in the imported beer aisle.

Bodega Mi Amiga is the largest liquor store in the country—and the oldest, dating back to 1959.

One of the stores Pragnell is referring to is Bodega Mi Amiga, a veritable institution on Via Porras in downtown Panama City.

Bodega Mi Amiga sells every kind of liquor you can imagine, or that is legally allowed to be imported into Panama.

Twenty minutes later, after much backing and swearing and heaving of lines the Bodega's hawser was finally put board the Maggie.

Down the bay they raced, the Bodega leading slightly, both tugs whistling at half-minute intervals.

The Bodega has more speed than the Aphrodite, so poke ahead there and let's try to get in an hour's sleep before daylight.

Me, I don't feel like drownin' in that engine room or gettin' cut in half by the bow o' the Bodega or the Aphrodite.

They live toward the north coast in the vicinity of the Port of Bodega.