Panama will present its experience of popular unity in Havana | People

Panamanians bring to the Forum in Sao Paulo, Havana, the message of strengthening social organizations in their country against neoliberalism, said Fernando Cebamanos, president of the Enlarged Front for Democracy (FAD).

Before leaving for Havana, in a dialogue with Prensa Latina, the politician talked about the current events in his country, where popular sectors are fighting for the elimination of a decree aimed at increasing the electricity tariffs, a measure that he described as coming from The neoliberal model was implanted

Since the Forum insisted on the need for the unity of peoples and their organizations " , he said, "before any difference, this system that leads the human being to the most humiliating conditions of his life and on this road Panama is advancing. A coordinator of organizations was created more than a year ago, and many of its leaders "could not even see each other and sit together", but today they are united and it is confirmed that it is the method to continue to fight

He gave as an example the current battle to avoid the rise in electricity prices, which will continue until his definitive repeal and not just the announced suspension, "because they do not capitulate, and we do not either". The president of the left-wing ADF acknowledged that "there is a depletion of the model that has been achieved by the Panamanian oligarchy, and none of the political organizations that represent it, that is, say the party faction, in their governments, has resolved the most On the contrary, it has abounded, under its administrations, deteriorated social services, to promote the free market of health, education and transport, however, they have significantly affected the living conditions of the Panamanians.

"This is an exhausted model, and on the other hand there is a new proposal that is the DCP, to be the alternative to this model.We, as ADF politicians, believe that the grbadroots movement must also join this effort to progress in the conquest of the government and the people's organization. "

The recent strike of the largest builders' union in the country, which I concluded successfully, with the conquest of the workforce and wage demands, and by forcing the government to retract in the increase in electricity these days, Cebamanos considers that & # 039; They are successful organizational awareness.

"The Panamanian people has always pointed out and recalled events that occurred at the end of the last century, mainly related to the struggle for sovereignty of the interoceanic cbad and to the confrontation with the invasion of the island. US Army in 1989.

He outlined his hope that "we are close to an awakening of the Panamanian people, capable of creating a new alternative of government for the people and the intervention of the government with the justice for the poor. "

At a time when the region is behind the retrograde movement of popular movements in power in several countries, the political veteran has criticized the media dies for trying to disqualify these models. people and affirmed that we are in a rising phase "in the popular struggles."

Illustrated with the case of Argentina, where the mbades are in the streets in constant protests by the harmful effect of neoliberal packages, as In Brazil, he stressed, we know that the former president Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva has the sympathies of the people and wants to avoid his candidacy.

He also recalled that in Colombia, the proposal of Gustavo Petro was supported by eight million voters. He finally referred to the victory of the Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whom he considered as signs that there is a new cycle of resurgence of progressive governments.