22-05-2025
Leader of powerful Panamanian union scales embassy wall, requests asylum from Bolivia
PANAMA CITY — A leader of Panama's most powerful union, a driving force for weeks of street protests against social security reforms, climbed an embassy wall and requested political asylum from Bolivia on Wednesday.
Hours later, Panamanian prosecutors announced that arrest orders had been issued in relation to a three-year investigation into the national construction workers union that he led. Prosecutors did not name the targets of the investigation.
