The measure seeks to repeal Panama’s recently passed pension reform law and oppose the US project to establish military bases in the country.
Thousands of Panamanians took to the streets on April 24 to protest pension reform, US interference, and the intended reopening of the country’s largest copper mine, they will continue their struggle in an indefinite strike beginning April 28
Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth will visit Panama amidst Donald Trump’s demands to have more influence over the Panama Canal. Social movements denounced the plan to establish four US military bases in Panama.
On March 18, social and popular organizations demonstrated outside the National Assembly of Panama, demanding that the Legislature terminate the controversial Law 462.
Despite mass arrests and police repression, the movement for sovereignty, social security rights, and against US expansionism grows.
Organized workers have denounced the police’s brutal treatment of demonstrators before and after the protest. President Mulino has called them “terrorists”.
The Trump administration increases its interventionist rhetoric and actions regarding the Panama Canal, as China upholds its longstanding support of Panamanian sovereignty.
Marco Rubio visits Panama to impose US interests on President Mulino, while organized workers fight for self-determination and sovereignty.
Following Trump’s statements about his possible intention to “retake” the Panama Canal, several voices in the Central American country have risen against the expansionist pretensions of the new government in Washington.
In a speech given at “AmericaFest” in Arizona, the president-elect stated that the fees charged by Panama were unfair and if they don’t change the US would demand the canal back.
The agreements between the US and Panama include migratory control and to carry out coordinated actions against the Venezuelan government
Panama’s largest union, SUNTRACS, has denounced that several of their bank accounts were frozen as a retaliatory measure for opposing a mining concession in 2023.