Protestors march 10 hours from Pacora to the presidency

A march of indigenous people, land workers, teachers, students, and residents of Panama that started at 6.30 am on Thursday, July 28 at the bridge over the Pacora River –which in recent weeks has been the scene of citizen protests ended 10 hours later at the premises of the Presidency, in San Felipe, to demand compliance with the agreements reached in the single dialogue table that takes place in Penonomé.

There they delivered a letter to the Vice Minister of the Presidency, Carlos García, informing him that they support Alianza Pueblo Unidos por la Vida and Anadepo. In addition, they ask that the processes within the dialogue table be streamlined, reported the leader Kevin Sánchez.

  They also requested the installation of sectoral and territorial tables “with the aim of facilitating the presence and monitoring by the various political sectors throughout the country, as is the case of our organizations in Panama East.

“They are taking a long time, the table is dilated, the people are waiting for results,” Sánchez said earlier, asking that everything agreed to be published promptly in the Official Gazette.

“If this is not the town, where is the town, the town is in the streets, forging unity”, chanted the participants in the march.

The single dialogue table, which was born as a government response to the wave of social protests that occurred in the country during the month of July, celebrates a week in a session with representatives from social organizations the Executive.