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Weekly Report - 25 June 2015 (WR-15-25)
PANAMA: A ‘national problem’ for Varela
A “national problem” is how President Juan Carlos Varela’s communications secretary, Manuel Domínguez, described the current stand-off over the Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam project. This after indigenous protesters opposed to the project – which the Partido Panameñista (PPA)-led El Pueblo Primero (EPP) coalition government had initially suspended in February - blockaded one of the country’s main highways, the Interamericana, and other local roads in the area last week calling for its complete cancellation.
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