Arias Calderon, Ricardo, Panama: Disaster or democracy? , Foreign Affairs, Vol. 66, no. Winter 1987/88, 1987, pp. 328-347 The President of the Christian Democratic Party discusses the 1987 National Civic Crusade to coordinate the protest movements and formulate its key demands: for justice, removal of Noriega and democratiization. Explains background to protests, notes the 1,500 arrests and numerous shootings of protesters, and comments on changing attitudes inside the USA.