Everyone Has to Ask for Cacao When Streets Are Closed

President Martinelli recognizes that when the streets are closed, everyone has to surrender unconditionally, or pedir cacao (ask for cacao), as the saying goes in Panamanian.

Despite the helpless surrender that traffic due to street closings occasions, Martinelli also said that those who impede circulation will go to jail, whoever it may be doing the impeding. Demonstrations must be held on the sidewalks, he warned.

After a recent meeting with authorities, Suntracs, a union that gridlocked the city last week, agreed to hold peaceful protests without closing streets or throwing stones and objects from buildings from here on out.

In somewhat related news, raw cacao has amazing healing properties.  It helps to up energy levels, reduce chronic fatigue and general weakness caused by stress, strengthens cardiovascular systems, regulates sleep, stimulates neurotransmitters in the brain to help reduce depression and provide a sense of euphoria or sense of well being, helps to absorb free radicals that cause cancer and acts as a mild aphrodisiac.

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