- Title: PANAMA DEMONSTRATIONS
- Date: 28th November 1959
- Summary: CROWD THROUGH STREETS CARRYING SIGNS: "GO HOM GRINGOS" CROWD THROUGH STREETS CARRYING FIGURE OF UNCLE SAM 2 SHOTS -- COMMANDER (??) AND OTHERS PAST CAMERA LS -- CROWD CU -- FIST FIGHT CROWD PUSHING AND SHOVING PHOTOGRAPHER PUSHED BY CROWD 2 SHOTS -- CROWDS THROUGH STREET WITH FIGURE OF UNCLE SAM HIGH SHOT -- CROWD ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: THE FRINGE OF CASTRO'S ANTI-AMERICAN STORM -- HIT THE SHORES OF PANAMA AGAIN -- OVER THE WEEK-END -- ANOTHER OF THOSE EXPLOSIONS -- AND FLURRIES OF VIOLENCE -- DEMONSTRATORS IN A "DAMN YANKEE" MOOD -- AS THEY GATHERED IN THE CAPITAL -- TO MARK THE ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE FROM SPAIN. UNCLE SAM HANGED IN EFFIGY WAS A COMMON SIGHT -- AS SPEAKERS ASSERTED PANAMANIAN SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE CANAL ZONE -- WHICH WE NOW CONTROL UNDER TERMS OF A PERPETUAL LEASE. RIOTERS -- VOCALLY AND BY PLACARD -- REELED OFF GRIEVANCES -- REAL AND IMAGINED. LATER -- THREE-HUNDRED OF THE MOB - MOVED TO THE CANAL'S FRONTIER -- IN AN ATTEMPT TO IMPLANT THE PANAMANIAN FLAG INSIDE. IN THE MELEE WHICH FOLLOWED -- A DOZEN AMERICAN SOLDIERS -- AND NINETEEN CIVILIANS WERE INJURED. TONIGHT -- ONE-HUNDRED FIFTY (150) RIOTERS AND LOOTERS ARE IN JAIL -- NO FURTHER DISORDERS -- BUT GRINGOS WALK SOFTLY -- THROUGH THE STREETS OF PANAMA CITY. Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
- Country: Panama
- Reuters ID: LVAB5ZD2PPZ9DPN9S2YRGUVH0FVH
- Story Text:PANAMA CITY HAS BEEN QUIET SINCE SATURDAY'S RIOTING, THE THIRD OUTBURST OF ANTI-UNITED STATES SENTIMENTS IN PANAMA WITHIN A MONTH.
A MOB THAT NUMBERED ONE-THOUSAND AT THE HEIGHT OF THE DEMONSTRATION TRIED TO ENTER THE CANAL ZONE. PANAMANIAN NATIONALISTS CALLED IT "AN INVASION" -- A DRIVE TO UNDERSCORE THEIR CLAIM TO SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE TERRITORY.
THE U.S. COMMANDER IN THE CANAL ZONE ISSUED A WARNING TO THEM: UNLESS THEY GAVE UP THEIR ATTEMPTS TO ENTER THE ZONE, HE'D ORDER HIS MEN TO OPEN FIRE. THE MOB RETREATED ... BUT WHEN THEY REACHED PANAMA CITY, THEY BEGAN TO LOOT AND DESTROY U.S. PROPERTY.
PANAMANIAN NATIONAL GUARDSMEN ... UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM THEIR GOVERNMENT ... CLASHED WITH THE RIOTERS, FOR FOUR HOURS, THE MOB AND THE GUARDSMEN FOUGHT IT OUT. ONE-HUNDRED AND FIFTY (150) RIOTERS WERE ARRESTED AND JAILED. THIRTEEN U.S. SOLDIERS WERE INJURED.
AS FOR THE PREPONDERANCE OF FIDEL CASTRO SIGNS: IT'S BELIEVED THE PLACARDS WERE BROUGHT IN BY CUBAN NEWSPAPERMEN WHO TOOK PHOTOGRAPHS OF THIS "DISPLAY" OF CASTRO POPULARITY FOR CONSUMPTION IN CUBA. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS - SOURCE TO BE VERIFIED
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