WATCH: Protesters burn U.S. flag prior to Obama’s arrival in Panama

WATCH: Protesters burn U.S. flag prior to Obama’s arrival in Panama
by Tim Rogers
April 9, 2015

PANAMA CITY —“What we are doing here is what all Latin American countries should do!” shouted Pedro Silva, a Panamanian activist with the group Warriors against Social Oppression, as he helped his friends string up an American flag and douse it in kerosene. “The U.S. for years has abused our people, our indigenous citizens, our blacks brought here from Africa.”

Silva said his group’s issue is not with the United States, which he said has “brave and working-class people.” Instead, the group, known by the acronym CAOS, is against United States’ “oppressive government” that “shoots at its own African American population and shoots at Latin America.”

“The countries of Latin America are unified,” Silva told Fusion, his voice crescendoing for dramatic effect. “And now they are threatening Venezuela; and if you threaten Venezuela you threaten all of us. And that’s why we’re burning this flag, damn it!”

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