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- Subject: NEWS:Strikes Follow Defeat of Panama "Reform"
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- Panama: Strikes Follow Referendum Defeat
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- from El Diario La Prensa 11/20
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- STRIKES FOLLOW REFERENDUM DEFEAT IN PANAMA
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- A wave of strikes by public sector employees and public protests
- have exploded in Panama following the elections of November 15, in
- which a package of reforms to the constitution was overwhelmingly
- rejected. The reforms included a proposal that the Panamanian
- army be dissolved.
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- The demonstrations are demanding that the govenrment of Guillermo
- Endara, put in place by the United States following its invasion
- of Panama in December of 1989, by more attention to the country's
- needs. While some important government officials have asked for
- the resignation of a bloc of ministers in Mananitas, some 21
- kilometers from Panama City, hundreds of residents of that town
- "kidnapped" a truck with supplies of water, demanding that the
- liquid be brought to their communities. Hundreds of residents of
- government housing protested in front of parliament and threatened
- street demonstrations because the roofs of their homes are full of
- holes and the structures are deteriorated.
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- Meanwhile, at least 12,000 university workers and professors,
- postal workers and workers of the Social Security Disbursements
- Office are on an indefinite strike demanding higher salaries and
- salaries adjustments which have been due since 1988. (AFP 11/20)
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- --translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News
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