Security authorities deployed scores of armed members of the National Border Service (Senafront) and the National Air Service (Senan) at subway stations and points along the route of a peaceful march by hundreds of teachers, students and workers against Panama constitutional reform on Thursday, November 21.

The march began at the Republic of Venezuela school and headed to  Cathedral Park. This is the fifth week of protests and marches against the changes to the constitution approved by the National Assembly.

According to the authorities, the military-style security was due to alleged alerts of the presence of possible “ infiltrators ”that would attempt against public property.

The National Migration Service (SNM) also warned foreigners living in Panama to refrain from participating in demonstrations.

The Executive and Legislative Body have held sessions to listen to the groups that have denounced the reforms, as they move to the second stage of constitutional reforms that must be carried out in the first months of 2020.