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Fresh demonstrations and peaceful road blockades continued today in Panama for several days in protest against rising prices and corruption, as the government seeks a way out of an unprecedented crisis with several labor unions.
In the capital, the construction workers’ union SUNTRACS, the largest in the country, demonstrated on several streets and boulevards, in some places blocking traffic with barricades.
On the Pan-American Highway that connects Panama to Central America, truck blockades continued to stop transport for thousands of people.
The crisis of the Central American country is the most severe since the fall of the dictatorship of Manuel Antonio Noriega in 1989, after the intervention of the US.
The situation has caused fuel shortages in some areas of the country, and also food shortages in the capital Panama City
“This generation has never experienced such a crisis,” former president Martín Torrijos (2004-2009) said yesterday. “This social explosion is not an isolated event or a temporary lack of food and fuel, it is an accumulation of deterioration in the lives of Panamanians,” he added.
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