Facilitating the passage of the humanitarian convoy to the Panamanian capital

Speaking to Prensa Latina, Jaime Caballero, a spokesperson for the People United for Life coalition, confirmed that they will escort trucks with food, fuel and gas to various points blocked by protesters on the Inter-American Highway.

As specified, coordination was made to allow the road to continue from Horconcitos (Chiriquí) to cities such as Ojo de Agua, in the neighboring province of Veraguas; Then through Coclé. It will end in the La Correira region, west of Panama and from there to the various product distribution centers.

Companies supported by centers such as Merca Panamá, which supplies the capital, after 17 days of strike and road closures, practically ran out of 50 percent of the usual goods and some remained in poor condition.

Augusto Reyes, of the Highland Producers Association, explained earlier that about five thousand tons of food are transported between agricultural products from the highlands and lowlands in Chiriqui Province.

The first trucks loaded with lettuce, celery and broccoli, as well as bananas from Bocas del Toro, Chiriqui and Darien, began arriving in Merca Panama, as a result of the partial opening of the roadblocks.

Concern increased, both for sellers and consumers, because supermarkets and small businesses did not have these agricultural products for sale or consumption.

“Our fight is against the government and the neoliberal model, not against the people,” Caballero commented while denying the police crackdown the day before in Santiago de Veraguas, which jeopardized the course of negotiations that began with the Catholic Church as a one-table dialogue facilitator with the executive.

The popular and social movements, which met on Wednesday in Koukli district, after setting an agenda of eight priority issues, expected the government to interact and start talks to find feasible solutions to the biggest crisis facing the country in the past 33 years, according to their estimates. .

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