Corruption and lack  of ethics survive pandemic

The corruption problems that existed in all spheres before the pandemic have survived because “they are viruses that eat away at the social fabric and have “impoverished a great majority, said Panama’s bishops at a Thursday, September 17  press conference, at the Cathedral Basilica Santa María la Antigua in San Felipe.

 The bishops said  also, in times of pandemic, there is still “concern” for an education that leaves the impoverished sectors more excluded, and  crisis exposed the collapse of the Panamanian health system, “but with a health staff with a commendable example, who fights Covid-19 until the death of some of its members.”

“It is indisputable that those historically excluded from development are the most affected by this pandemic, and now a growing number of vulnerable families have joined by losing their jobs or means of subsistence,” says a  statement read at the meeting. chaired by the Archbishop José Domingo Ulloa.

“To all the above we must add the rates of violence and crime in all its forms, the popular clamor against corruption and the lack of transparency in public management, the continuous demands for better living conditions: water, housing, health, education, decent and stable employment ”, says the statement.