Panama's government and indigenous leaders reached a deal Sunday to clear demonstrators from part of the Panamerican Highway in exchange for lower fuel prices
, but other stretches of the strategic route remained blocked by protesters demanding more concessions.
Two weeks of revolt in Chiriqui and elsewhere in Panama over high prices and corruption have made it hard to feed the country. Delegations from the government and demonstrators met again in a school in the town of Santiago de Veraguas, 250 kilometers southwest of Panama City. A deal was reached Saturday to lower the price of gasoline, but the demonstrators are holding out for cuts in the prices of some 40 consumer products and medicines.Year-on-year inflation in Panama of 4.2 percent was recorded in May, along with an unemployment rate of about 10 percent and fuel price hikes of nearly 50 percent since January.
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