The United States asks its citizens to avoid traveling in the province of Panama after violent demonstrations
Panama City (AP) – The United States has asked its citizens to avoid going to the Panamanian province of Bocas del Toro after the violent demonstrations of the last days they took to the government to temporarily suspend the fundamental rights of the traffic, meeting and restriction of communications In an effort to control the situation in this area.
However, the demonstrations did not stop in the banana province located in the west of the nation and which is on board the Costa Rica, whose Caribbean islands are considered an important tourist attraction. According to the authorities, more than a hundred people have been arrested and dozens were injured, including demonstrators and police.
The American Embassy published almost midnight on Friday in the social network X a security alert for its citizens, in which they asked to avoid traveling in Changinola, the main city of Bocas del Toro and the epicenter of violent demonstrations, as well as the tourist islands of the archipelago.
“If you are already in the province of Bocas del Toro, remember to take refuge at home or leave the province if you can do so safely,” he said in his English advice. Americans are among the foreigners who travel from tourism to the Bocatoreñas Islands.
THURSDAY, Demonstrations that have been reforms of the pension plan at the national level almost two months They climbed when groups of demonstrators strengthened in Changinola’s airport, at the Bananera Transnational Bananera offices and the National Civil Protection Service, of the public entity which serves as an emergency, where they caused looting and excesses, according to the authorities. The demonstrators also destroyed state and private vehicles and caused a fire in the baseball of this city.
The Ministry of Security reported that on Saturday in Dawn, a Social Security Fund warehouse, the country’s social security establishment, was vandalized in Changinola. He also pointed out that a police officer had been shot by demonstrators and that he had intervened surgically.
Bocas Del Toro is the most battered region by national demonstrations that have taken place since the end of April and which are motivated by banana unions, the construction industry, teachers and natives, which require the repeal of an approved and sanctioned law in March which reformed the pension plan. Product of an extended strike in banana farms, the At the transnational brands of Chiquita suspended operations and ceased several thousand workers In this province, which depends mainly on fruit production and export.
In addition to movement and meeting restrictions, the internet and mobile telephony service had been suspended in Bocas del Toro in the context of emergency actions to control the furious demonstrations.
