{"id":255025,"date":"2025-06-21T21:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T21:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:04:56","slug":"state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"State of emergency: What&#8217;s behind the pension protests in Panama&#8217;s northwestern province? | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/hVuwAK2-qYE\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"State of emergency: What's behind the pension protests in Panama's northwestern province? | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hVuwAK2-qYE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Panama has declared a state of emergency in a poor, western province, after weeks of protests over pension reforms which would require workers to pay higher contributions for fewer benefits. In response to the pension strikes, Panama\u2019s Congress enacted a new law in the banana sector last week designed to protect worker\u2019s benefits such as medical assistance. On Thursday and Friday, rioters and masked individuals &#8211; presumably not related to the pension reform movement &#8211;  forced their way into Changuinola airport, set fire to a local baseball stadium, and damaged the closed Chiquita factory, leading to the government\u2019s decision to temporarily suspend constitutional protections in the province. The recently declared state of emergency allows police to make arrests without a warrant and greatly restricts freedom of movement. <\/p>\n<p>Chapter Breakdown:<br \/>\n0:00 Protesters impose roadblocks in month-long protests against protest reforms in Panama&#8217;s banana sector<br \/>\n1:37 Nivia Castrellon, Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Panama, on whether the government&#8217;s response to protests has been proportionate<\/p>\n<p>#chiquita #banana #panama <\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panama has declared a state of emergency in a poor, western province, after weeks of protests over pension reforms which would require workers to pay higher contributions for fewer benefits. In response to the pension strikes, Panama\u2019s Congress enacted a new law in the banana sector last week designed to protect worker\u2019s benefits such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":255026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[129884,140362,129250],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-255025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-declared","tag-panama","tag-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State of emergency: What&#039;s behind the pension protests in Panama&#039;s northwestern province? | DW News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch State of emergency: What&#039;s behind the pension protests in Panama&#039;s northwestern province? | DW News for free, here on News ISC. Discover more great videos on our website and be part of the community.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"State of emergency: What&#039;s behind the pension protests in Panama&#039;s northwestern province? | DW News | News ISC Videos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Watch State of emergency: What&#039;s behind the pension protests in Panama&#039;s northwestern province? | DW News for free, here on News ISC. Discover more great videos on our website and be part of the community.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News ISC Videos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-21T20:04:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/hVuwAK2-qYE\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8fc7285683ba1adeab6d673f53b9f3eb\"},\"headline\":\"State of emergency: What&#8217;s behind the pension protests in Panama&#8217;s northwestern province? | DW News\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-21T20:04:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":244,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/hqdefault-3063.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"declared\",\"Panama\",\"state\"],\"articleSection\":[\"DW News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\\\/\",\"name\":\"State of emergency: What's behind the pension protests in Panama's northwestern province? | DW News | News ISC Videos\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/hqdefault-3063.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-21T20:04:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8fc7285683ba1adeab6d673f53b9f3eb\"},\"description\":\"Watch State of emergency: What's behind the pension protests in Panama's northwestern province? | DW News for free, here on News ISC. Discover more great videos on our website and be part of the community.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/hqdefault-3063.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/hqdefault-3063.jpg\",\"width\":480,\"height\":360},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"State of emergency: What&#8217;s behind the pension protests in Panama&#8217;s northwestern province? | DW News\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/\",\"name\":\"News ISC Videos\",\"description\":\"Bringing Global News Videos To You\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8fc7285683ba1adeab6d673f53b9f3eb\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5cb873dc3ec1a9c6faaada2ff44165cc5008b217d20c9e9a42cc731bad11ed16?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5cb873dc3ec1a9c6faaada2ff44165cc5008b217d20c9e9a42cc731bad11ed16?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5cb873dc3ec1a9c6faaada2ff44165cc5008b217d20c9e9a42cc731bad11ed16?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tidyhosts.com\\\/videos\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.newsisc.com\\\/videos\\\/author\\\/admin-2\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"State of emergency: What's behind the pension protests in Panama's northwestern province? | DW News | News ISC Videos","description":"Watch State of emergency: What's behind the pension protests in Panama's northwestern province? | DW News for free, here on News ISC. Discover more great videos on our website and be part of the community.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"State of emergency: What's behind the pension protests in Panama's northwestern province? | DW News | News ISC Videos","og_description":"Watch State of emergency: What's behind the pension protests in Panama's northwestern province? | DW News for free, here on News ISC. Discover more great videos on our website and be part of the community.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/","og_site_name":"News ISC Videos","article_published_time":"2025-06-21T20:04:56+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/hVuwAK2-qYE\/hqdefault.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/#\/schema\/person\/8fc7285683ba1adeab6d673f53b9f3eb"},"headline":"State of emergency: What&#8217;s behind the pension protests in Panama&#8217;s northwestern province? | DW News","datePublished":"2025-06-21T20:04:56+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/"},"wordCount":244,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hqdefault-3063.jpg","keywords":["declared","Panama","state"],"articleSection":["DW News"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/","url":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/","name":"State of emergency: What's behind the pension protests in Panama's northwestern province? | DW News | News ISC Videos","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hqdefault-3063.jpg","datePublished":"2025-06-21T20:04:56+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/#\/schema\/person\/8fc7285683ba1adeab6d673f53b9f3eb"},"description":"Watch State of emergency: What's behind the pension protests in Panama's northwestern province? | DW News for free, here on News ISC. Discover more great videos on our website and be part of the community.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hqdefault-3063.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hqdefault-3063.jpg","width":480,"height":360},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/state-of-emergency-whats-behind-the-pension-protests-in-panamas-northwestern-province-dw-news\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"State of emergency: What&#8217;s behind the pension protests in Panama&#8217;s northwestern province? | DW News"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/","name":"News ISC Videos","description":"Bringing Global News Videos To You","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/#\/schema\/person\/8fc7285683ba1adeab6d673f53b9f3eb","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5cb873dc3ec1a9c6faaada2ff44165cc5008b217d20c9e9a42cc731bad11ed16?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5cb873dc3ec1a9c6faaada2ff44165cc5008b217d20c9e9a42cc731bad11ed16?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5cb873dc3ec1a9c6faaada2ff44165cc5008b217d20c9e9a42cc731bad11ed16?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.tidyhosts.com\/videos"],"url":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/author\/admin-2\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255025"},{"taxonomy":"actors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actors?post=255025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}