WORK! A challenge for lawmakers

 The measures announced by the president to alleviate the street protests –freeze the price of fuel and the price of 10 products in the basic basket– are far from satisfying the growing popular discontent. In Panama, many are still without work or without the income they are used to, while politicians continue in their bubble, oblivious to the needs of a people fed up with patronage, waste, and impudence.

We have all had to make a sacrifice – some of us much more than others – but those who govern us have had their best days in this crisis because they cannot hide how well they have been doing business with and because of the pandemic.  

Mr. President, your intentions, although good, will not be enough, because nothing you intend to do will be a sacrifice like we have all had to do. While, the ridiculous note came from the Assembly, the cradle of cynicism. The deputy who declared an open bar with an expensive whisky had no better idea than to appoint a legislative commission to investigate the reason for the high cost of living. Are we to assume that after he finds out he will pass a law banning it? Why don’t they already prohibit this high cost and save themselves from doing something they abhor with all their being: work?  – LA PRENSA, Jul.12.