President emphasizes that the internet is a ‘highway’ and ‘bridge’ for knowledge.

During a tour of the El Cacao de Capira district, the President of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, delivered televisions as part of the Transforming Lives Program, to facilitate access to education for hundreds of young people and prevent school dropouts in this area. secluded from the province of Panama Oeste.

 

The televisions were delivered in the Jagua-Bajo Bonito, Altamira and Cirí Grande communities, in 103 homes where 678 people reside, which on October 15 were benefited from the Rural Electrification Program.

 

The president reiterated his decision to provide a good internet to these communities, because "those are the great highways and the great bridges that we can advance in this administration" to give them the tools that facilitate access to education.

 

Cortizo Cohen reiterated that his government is a different government, that works in front of the people, well focused, without allowing them to distract him and take him out of focus, from the mission for which he came to govern.

 

He stressed that, more than proclaiming that it will solve the problem of poverty and inequality, “we are going to lay the foundations of what the next administrations should be, of a different style of government, close to the people, looking at them and speaking to the heart and the soul".

 

He argued that within the economic limitations imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the great effort of the current administration is to distribute the budget equitably so that the benefits reach the five Panama.

 

Cortizo Cohen explained that in the first eight months of the government, before the pandemic, eleven Community Work Tours were carried out, in which the communities presented their needs and proposals and that, as a result of those meetings last year, the project was inaugurated of rural electrification and that today is reinforced with the delivery of televisions.

 

 

 

 

“Today I am honored to be here with you, to tell you that you have an allied administration, and that what motivates us is to be well aligned to defend the interests of this country and help those most in need; they have an ally in that ”, said the president.

 

The minister of Social Development, María Inés Castillo; the vice minister, Milagro Ramos Castro; the Vice Minister of Infrastructure of the Ministry of Education, Ricardo Sánchez; the governor of Panama Oeste, Syndy Smith; the mayor of Capira, Jorge Ramos Aparicio; and the representative of the village of El Cacao, Hernán Rivera.