Amid a process aimed at dissolving one of Panama’s most active and important unions, the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued a report identifying measures that hinder union organization.

Los sectores populares en Panamá se encuentran en huelga desde hace un mes en contra de las políticas del gobierno de José Raúl Mulino.

The Panamanian workers’ strike enters another week and is gaining more support despite police and judicial pressure from the Mulino government, say the demonstrators.

While the Catholic Church and the businessmen look for a deal, the workers are still fighting against the neoliberal projects of José Raúl Mulino’s government.

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

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”.

La administración Trump aumenta su retórica y sus acciones intervencionistas con respecto al Canal de Panamá, mientras China mantiene su apoyo de larga data a la soberanía panameña.

Trump’s mass deportation plan is rapidly expanding beyond US borders, with migrants now detained at Guantánamo Bay and deals being struck with Latin American nations.

Marco Rubio visits Panama to impose US interests on President Mulino, while organized workers fight for self-determination and sovereignty.