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prices The manifest incompetence of President Martín Torrijos, who turns out to be evasive, demagogic and absent, keeps him from carrying out the basic resposibility he has, as head of state, to rescue the Panamanian nation from one of the worst moments that flows from his own indolence. The increases in the price of fuel and of the electric rates punish the Panamanian people as the president and his government team look on in evident laziness and weakness. It is undeniable that President Torrijos openly and irresponsibly flees from his commitment to administer the country for the good of the Panamanian people. Proof of this is that he has not decisively and firmly confronted the increase in fuel prices and has abandoned us to the worst of fates. As chief executive elected to serve Panamanians, the president has the primordial duty to find real attenuants that alleviate the burden of the international situation with fuel prices imposes on the local level. Instead of this, the president hides his incompetence by blaming external factors that are supposedly inalterable, against which he confesses he's defenseless. It's his excuse for failing to take the urgent measures that the nation demands and one regrettable result of this incompetence has kept him from seriously and profoundly analyzing a proposed increase in Panama Canal tolls for ships that carry fuel, which we should have done in September of last year. The second increase that punishes the Panamanian people, upon whose many problems President Torrijos has turned his back, is the unjustified 9 percent increase in electric bills. It's unfortunate that the president's declarations, when announcing this increase as an alleged triumph of his government, did nothing but give us the impression of his complicity with the exploitative foreign companies. Thus, once again we demand that President Torrijos must publish the donations received from these companies by his campaign in the last election, and to divulge the names of which members of his government benefit from their profits, either directly or by way of corporations. With sorrow we find it necessary to remind President Torrijos that private interests should not feed upon the suffering of the majority of Panamanians. It's time to speak the truth to the Panamanian people, and if the boasts of his administration's transparency have any glimmer of truth, we demand that it accept the sad reality that has made it impossible for his government to look out for the security of Panamanians.
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