WNU #1044: Tensions Continue Over Anti-Labor Law in Panama

Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #1044, August 15, 2010

1. Panama: Tensions Continue Over Anti-Labor Law
2. Mexico: Supreme Court Extends Same-Sex Marriage
3. Mexico: Rights Commission Faults Army in Students’ Deaths
4. Puerto Rico: Lebrón Remembered, Torres Freed
5. Links to alternative sources on: Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago

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*1. Panama: Tensions Continue Over Anti-Labor Law
Hundreds marched in Changuinola, the capital of the northwestern Panamanian province of Bocas del Toro, on Aug. 8 in memory of two workers who were killed a month earlier while protesting legislation opposed by unionists and environmental activists. Erasmo Cerrud, a local leader in the country’s largest union, the Only Union of Construction and Similar Workers (SUNTRACS), charged that there had been no progress in the investigations into the deaths of the two workers, Antonio Smith and Virgilio Castillo, in confrontations with anti-riot police. “The dead and the wounded won’t be forgotten, and the struggle will continue,” Feliciana Jaén, a leader of indigenous women, told the marchers. [...]

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