{"id":33367,"date":"2025-07-30T03:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33367\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T03:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:38:10","slug":"panamanian-farmers-versus-global-shipping-and-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33367\/","title":{"rendered":"Panamanian farmers versus global shipping\u2014and Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">In A remote part of Panama, where motorised canoe is the main mode of transport, a pristine asphalt road portends the arrival of a project unwanted by many locals. In February the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) approved a $1.6bn project that will see the Indio river dammed, flooding the lands of 630 families who live in the basin. In May, dozens of farmers waving Panamanian flags took to the Indio in their canoes to protest against the decision. \u201cThis land is our heritage and our livelihood,\u201d says Olegario Cede\u00f1o, a coffee and plantain farmer. \u201cThey haven\u2019t given us any chance to debate this project.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In A remote part of Panama, where motorised canoe is the main mode of transport, a pristine asphalt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,25279,3275],"class_list":["post-33367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-the-americas","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}