Posted on 07/19/2022 6:53:00 PM PDT by Nextrush
It's been almost two weeks since protests began in Panama aimed at the high cost of everything from food to fuel to medicine.
Teachers went on strike at first but other trade unions joined in leading to crowds on streets and highways with roads blocked including the key Panamerican Highway running through the middle of the Isthmus.
Last weekend it appeared that labor union leaders and the government were cutting a deal to end the protests that were impacting the movement of food to Panama City where much of the country's population lives.
The deal would have cut prices some 10 percent but that was not enough to the grassroots protesters and union members so the demonstrations continued this week.
Earlier today police made their move launching tear gas to clear the Santiago Bridge in Veraguas Province some 75 miles outside Panama City. They clashed with demonstrators throwing rocks.
The police said they cleared the highway at another point nearby and are able to move food on a "humanitarian corridor" to Panama City...
But tonight new developments as the protestors retook control of the Pan-American Highway in Santiago closing it...
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The entire world is on fire. And we have feckless Joe the resident of the United States going to bed at 8:30.
The wheels are coming off big time. Klaus is getting his reset.
President Trump had everything in balance until Biden came in and destroyed the American energy industry. The reverberations have been felt around the world. Non-whites have been hit particularly hard by their "benefactors".
You ain’t seen nothing yet… we aren’t even in the pregame.
Is that AM or PM?
A short video from the Santiago Bridge retaken by protesters this evening.
They are messing with a police car at the end of it..
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SGys7Mwl5Zo
Don’t see the press reporting this nor tying this into the green new deal.
They are distracting with climate, J6, whatever they can throw against the wall to distract from the inflation-economic mess.
Block he canal then see what happens.
He and his co-conspirators are reponsible for every last bit of it.
Including the dead in Afghanistan and the tens of thousands dead in Ukraine.
None of it would have happened if they had let the will of the people be implemented and retain Donald Trump as President.
You ain’t seen nothing yet… we aren’t even in the pregame.”
It’s the media hype week before Superbowl Sunday.
Everything’s starting to unravel. Hope everyone has prepared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMRqSSxqDwo
A short (and odd) song by The Doors with poetry by Jim Morrison.
WORLD ON FIRE
Chaos in the background (shouts of ‘Save Us””).
“The world on fire.....I’ll never wake up in a good mood again. I’m sick of these stinky boots.”
i was in panama briefly last week. gas was 5.70 a gallon (liter conversion) for regular. insane considering avg. salary there.
at some point all these third world import-dependent countries end up sending all their money out of country for energy and net food imports and end up like sri lanka if this keeps up.
I do not think bananas will cover the net trade balance deficit this creates for panama.
I would assume economists have already developed models for when various countries hit the limit under a number of fuel scenarios. panama is dollarized (always has been) which, of course, has been a huge advantage for it for its entire history, possibly up until now.
ACP won’t strike. civilians won’t get into canal infrastructure.
i guess used to they could have blocked the gatun underpass (you would drive in front of the actual lower chamber at sea level) but they can just close that, it only goes to former ft sherman.
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