CCIAP: The government reacted passively to the crisis

The Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Panama (CCIAP) considers that it is People’s government he showed a passive response that ignores respect for constitutional rights, in light of the crisis the country is going through over the mining contract.

According to the union, the crisis has stopped being managed both on the street and in the possibility of generating rapprochement for mediating a way out of the current crisis.

“Once again they were an example of a failed communication scheme and action that marked the most critical moments of this period”, the CCIAP points out.

This was announced by the business union The strategy seems to be to sit back and watch as the lives and well-being of millions of countrymen are destroyed on a daily basis.right until Supreme Court of Justice render judgment in relation to Law 406 of 2023

“Only those who do not understand or selectively ignore the full ferocity of the devastation this paralysis is wreaking on the lives of Panamanians are capable of believing that violent, radical and anti-democratic groups will relent, letting the days pass. No, they will not give in on their own, but will continue to attack the democratic foundations of our society with their demagoguery and violence,” states CCIAP.

The union explained that paralysis in the streets and teacher strikes threaten more than 38 thousand students who will fail the year and another 85 thousand who will have to repeat subjectsaccording to the figures he estimated Ministry of Education.

They add that this adds to the shortcomings that our flawed education system already had, the situation of which has profound consequences for the human development and employability of thousands of young people, as well as for the country’s own ability to face the highly competitive future that is needed to achieve development, while other neighboring countries continue to progress.

“These challenges are compounded by irreparable human losses and the effects of closures on the mobility and basic needs of hundreds of thousands of workers, which represent only some of the damage caused by the country’s paralysis,” they point out.

Furthermore, they indicated that thousands of insured people who miss their medical appointmentshundreds of patients whose treatment has been interrupted, thousands of micro and small businesses on the verge of bankruptcy and producers who are condemned to lose the livelihood of their families and a difficult life’s work.

They also noted that the paralysis of the state, by taking advantage of a legitimate and peaceful protest led by young people, revealed the presence of radical and political organizations, which openly or hidden behind themselves, intentionally and orchestratedly promote chaos and violence, affecting the lives and human rights of the entire population.

“We stand in solidarity with the wishes of the youth who are civilly and peacefully protesting and we condemn those who blatantly ignore the democratic rules of the rule of law, resorting to violence as a method to attack the fundamental freedoms of our Panama,” he said. guild.