Panama has declared an emergency in its main banana-producing region, after shops were looted and buildings vandalised in ongoing protests over a pension reform.
The government says constitutional rights will be suspended for the next five days in the north-western Bocas del Toro province.
The measure restricts freedom of movement and allows the police to make arrests without a warrant.
Troubles in the region began a month ago, when the local banana workers union joined a nationwide protest against proposed pension cuts and declared a strike.
Couldn’t be more proud of every one of those workers. Take back what is yours, boys!
Fuck the Panama State for, as expected, employing authoritarian violence against workers standing up to oppression from a soulless corporate entity.
Goes to show who the state really cares about. It isn’t the people.
Chiquita wanted to save a few bucks. Chiquita is willing to let everyone living in the area suffer, go broke, go homeless, and starve. That is a sacrifice Chiquita knew it would make to save a few bucks on labor.
Chiquita Executives:
The government says constitutional rights will be suspended for the next five days
Please don’t give the US any ideas…
Three decades later…
