Angel Valdes | April 12, 2023
The president of the National Assembly and pre-candidate for the Presidency for the Democratic Revolutionary Party, Crispiano Adames, said in an interview on Radio Panama that in the case of the Cerro Patacón landfill that the declaration of the state of environmental emergency is to produce direct contracts.
“Now a national environmental emergency is being arranged to produce direct contracts, the Ministry of the Presidency has been favoring the intervention of private companies to do what Urbalia had to do before his contract ended, he has put police commissioners to lead the Authority of Cleaning outside of their competence and knowledge, so they are the ones who have to give the explanations to the Panamanian people,” said Adames.
In a communiqué from the Presidency of the Republic, it was indicated that “The approved resolution instructs the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of the Environment and the Urban and Home Cleaning Authority, as well as other corresponding public institutions, to adopt measures at the inter-institutional level to mitigate the damage caused in the Cerro Patacón sanitary landfill.
“Above Cerro Patacón live communities that are intoxicated by the action of the contaminated waters that flow the garbage and below there are populations contaminated with polluted air and there are the slopes and tributaries of the hydrographic sources of the Panama Canal contaminated as a result of a company absolutely irresponsible,” Adames said.
