Panama’s two-month long strike continues with teachers voting to maintain industrial action and residents claiming police overreacted in altercations across the country. The province of Azuero has issued a state of emergency for lack of drinking water whereas Bocas del Toro sees at least 20 roads closed despite police operations to reopen them. President Jose Raul Mulino has rejected a revised social security law for the third time and cancelled a trip to France to deal with heightened tension in Bocas del Toro. The province has been cut off from the rest of the country. Talks between banana union members and the National Assembly could see an agreement pass which would debate Law 45 which covers working hours, reopen Bocas del Toro, amend Law 45 and open discussions between the National Assembly and Chiquita Panama. The company had announced a further 1,600 job losses bringing the total to over 6,000 workers.