One of the most important issues in Panama is the rising prices of food. Here is a great article that reports some of the price increases.
Basic Food Costs Continue to Rise in Panama – Panama Guide
As a family we have seen:
- potatoes from .30/# to .70/#
- drinks from .19 a pack to .29
When we first visited Panama, we thought these prices were really cheap. Compared to what we were paying at US grocery stores, they were.
Now that we live here, we got use to paying .30 for potatoes. To go to .70 in a week for potatoes is really expensive.
The rising prices of nearly everything in panama may only be nickels and dimes, but it is huge percentage increases that are going to force this to become the #1 issue in the mind of the electorate.
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