'This ends today': Retired US lawyer stuck behind environmentalist blockade guns down two Panamanian protesters Western environmentalists and climate alarmists have gone to great lengths to protest job-creating mineral extraction and the use of affordable energy in recent years, gluing themselves to airport runways, vandalizing priceless works of art, and ruining their own celebrations. One of their go-to tactics has been illegal road blockades.
Blockaders usually face little consequence for holding up traffic, even when emergency vehicles need to get by. On occasion, they have been met with criticism, buckets of water, and fisticuffs. On Tuesday, a pair of Panamanian eco-alarmists were met with bullets.
A 77-year-old Panamanian-born U.S. citizen got stuck behind a blockade roughly 55 miles west of Panama City. After a failed attempt to clear the barricade, he gunned down a pair of ostensibly unarmed protesters. As a TV news crew was just a stone's throw away, the whole incident was caught on tape.
Minera Panamá S.A., a subsidiary of Canadian mining company First Quantum Minerals, recently secured a contract from the Panamanian government to operate a copper mine in a jungle west of Panama City at a time when copper, needed for the manufacture of electric vehicles, is in high demand, reported the Times. .............
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