PANAMA MINING PROTEST

Groups of students and civil society mobilize to reject mining contract in Panama

epa10933602 A sign reads 'Panama free of mines' as groups of students and civil society mobilize on the capital's seafront to reject a mining contract, in Panama City, Panama, 22 October 2023. The authorities of Panama announced the suspension of classes in the country this 23 October in response to the call for protests against the contract between the State and a subsidiary of the Canadian First Quantum Minerals for the exploitation of the largest open pit copper mine in Central America. Workers' and educators' unions announced new blockades for this 23 October in the capital and in some areas of the interior in rejection of the approval, last Friday, of the contract law with the company Minera Panama, which operates the Cobre Panama mine and exports the mineral from June 2019, especially for the Chinese market. EPA/Bienvenido Velasco

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