Day of mourning mooted to mark US invasion of Panama

A draft bill, to raise  national awareness  of the US invasion of Panama on December 20, 1989 has been published by the National Assembly  Health and Social Development committee

The initiative declares that  on December 20 each year, starting in, 2020, National Mourning Day

Day, the national flag will fly at half-mast throughout the national territory.

During the day the transmission and projection of strident music will be prohibited in all radio and television media, state and private; the sale, consumption, and sale of alcoholic beverages throughout the national territory, from 12:01, am on December 20 until 12:01 am on December 21, as well as the celebration of public musical shows. Violaters be fined $500 to $5,000, by the municipal authorities.

The preliminary draft also contemplates that the Statistics and Census Directorate of the Comptroller General within the framework of the 2020 census, must raise the statistics of how many Panamanians perished as a result of the invasion