RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Several labor unions, associations, and guilds of Panama protested this Thursday in the premises of the Parliament against the Government, which celebrates its second anniversary today, in a demonstration that ended in skirmishes against the police.
The protest was peaceful until a small group broke down the security cordon and threw paint at the police, who responded with tear gas and dispersed the gathering (Photo internet reproduction)
“It is a government more of the same, businesslike, just like the other six governments of the last 31 years (…) we need a new country, to found a new state. New democracy, new rules of the game”, the leader of the powerful construction union Suntracs, Saúl Mendéz, told EFE.