Tourism Projects Violate Human Rights

By The Boss on Mar 20, 2008 | In Politics, Media, Expat, Business | 1 feedback »

We knew it. Ruben Blades is a human rights violator and so are these tourists in their Hawaii shirts and baseball caps. Tourism projects (and other projects by friends of Torrijos et al such as mines and hydroelectric dams) mushrooming all over the country cause displacement of citizens and violate their right to a place to live. It also damages the environment, as we're seeing in Tonosi today. We don't make that up, it's in a new report published by the Panamanian Human Rights Network which unites about 32 civil organizations and groups. They made the report because the government doesn't comply with its obligation to file annual reports with the UN about Human Rights. We the People!

The report spans the period from 1992 to 2008 and lists numerous other creative ways the Bananama officials have developed to trample our rights. They don't protect refugees. There is discrimination against the handicapped. Children rights are violated. And of course the famous prisons system. The human rights situation in Panama is, in short, a big fucking mess and they haven't even listed everything. Does anyone in the government care? Ruben Blades has a new album out, did you know that?

Tags: bad, human rights, panama, really bad, ruben blades, tourism, violations
Comment from: We are been offer $2,500 a hectarea for a proyect! [Visitor]
My father own a small land in the rio Fonseca, chiriqui, Panama. And the goverment is trying to use our land for a hidrohelectric power plant, and they have offer to pay $2,500 dolares an hectarea when this river has been for century a part of the income for panamenian citizens in the comunities of Sabalo, paso ganado and balita. they are trying to sell the proyect a company from spain call grupo cuerva. We are really distress about it.
Please we are asking for support our opposition to this proyect because is going to distroy the environment in the area.

Alexander Serrud
03/28/08 @ 00:06

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