OPINION: Tragedies follow political appointees

The so-called La Joyita massacre has left some lessons. As experts say, our prisons are far from being centers of resocialization. On the contrary, they are the academy of crime, a  hell from which no angels leave They are a living and palpable fact: the failure of resocialization and crime prevention programs.

Panama lacks a State policy in almost all important issues: education, health, safety, mining, prison resocialization, gender equalization, work, tourism, investments, urban planning, ecology, water use, energy, etc. And they don’t exist because governments instead of putting technicians and specialists in front instead of putting technicians and specialists in front they appoint politicians who don’t know what matters,. The future of the country is routed with the future of crises, as happened, for example, with the fire of the bus in which 18 people died in 2006 or the tragedy of diethylene glycol, in which there is no certainty of the number of deaths, because more and more lives of poisoned patients are lost. We hope that from this new tragedy something positive will come out for Panamanian society- LA PRENSA, Dec. 26