Panamanian anocracy and Bolivarian style

Times that approaching Panama They will be completely different from those experienced in previous centuries, “but not strange” to what we have experienced so far in our collective memory due to our privileged geographical position.

Panama in 2024 resembles the time of the department of the Isthmus of Greater Colombia, where its inhabitants, tired of being forgotten, forged separatist movements for economic issues (protectionism or free trade), political (conservative vs liberal) and administrative (central or federal) and after so many fights we managed to break away and achieve victory.

There were some in Panama in the 20th century many coups and military dictatorships were established due to the same phenomena that were already happening a century ago. The identified mechanics of the mentioned social-military movements, knowing how they happened and how they developed allows us to understand and justify them: Panamanians historically get tired of the lack of certainty of punishment, corruption and everyday injustice and express them in “social movements”, such as unfortunately happened with the approval without public discussion of the mining contract in 2023.

Widespread corruption, embezzlement rooted in political culture and bribery they were the tone of a South American country, a small Saudi Venice, a nation that is currently being blamed for the fact that democracy is in decline and that has generated an unprecedented migration crisis in the world. That oil nation currently shares certain sociopolitical characteristics with Panama: coups de martial law and the subsequent recovery of democracy, The Punto Fijo Pact here was called the Bambito Meetings, they fought over the tenders of government hospitals with cost overruns and demanded astronomical subsidies, a nation with repressive regulations and excessive bureaucracy. They believed that their goose that laid the golden eggs was oil. and turned it into a “super-ministry that ensures the development” of politicians in power, here we have a laying hen, the Interoceanic Canal, for which we cannot even find drinking water. They had a chastened middle class that lost its fear and brought with it the revolution of 21st century socialism – the chivia’a version.

Huge oil and mining wealth transformed the small Saudi Venice in a nation with excellent infrastructure and technology, but this did not reduce the poverty gap and created a syllogism that forged the face of the Chavista revolution and that we must not allow to happen in our nation: We are a rich country, I am poor and so, someone is stealing my money and gives bribes to the court.

We must not live in the past, even though the king’s advisers are “reconstructive nostalgists” who want to return to Noriegato in 2024. We must build an inclusive Panama, but we must not ignore the cause-effect relationships. How does a Panamanian feel who lost his job in the pandemic, who cannot pay social contributions since the pandemic and who is in the informal sector, while the current general managers who lost their jobs are honorary directors? from save the disability, old age and death program? No one is selected in a crisis, and they left the team until the end Tired of directors and ministers: Treason that Cajin IVM dies?

The current Jack Oliver Creoles, intoxicated with power, will have already eaten 3 truckloads of watermelons by 2024, and now they have to pay retirement to the humble José Manuel Luna. Jack Olivers They sat at the dialogue table, the two-hundred-year pact, and the tables where they could take pictures to continue eating watermelon slices to build without supplies and experts, even though they knew they had no money to pay for watermelon slices. that all the fourteenths eat very juicy. A nation that does not know its history is condemned to repeat it. I hope that due to the lack of money from pensions, another watermelon will not start in 2024.