[News Boquete] Indigenous protestors close Inter-American Highway

Reprinted from Newsroom Panama

 

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A group of indigenous people closed the Inter-American Highway on Monday, February 23 in the province of Chiriquí, demanding that the agreements proposed at the Dialogue Table be fulfilled, a situation that up to now, according to them, has not occurred. They also demand the repair of the streets and protest the high cost of food. The closure came, the day after a government group appeared in the interior of the country to mediate the situation and resolve it.

The delegation made up of the Minister of Public Works, Rafael Sabonge, and the Minister of Government, Roger Tejada, met with community leaders in Viguí. After the meeting, Tejada stated that there would be no street closures this Mon

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