Are Spaniards still trading with mirrors?

Actually the Spanish construction companies work in foreign countries because the economical crisis paralyzed all the indoor projects. OHL (Qatar's underground), FCC (Arabia Saudi's underground), ACS, Ferrovial, Indra and others in the high speed train to The Mecca. This are only some of the several projects of Spain outside.

But not all of them go as they should.

Sacyr is building the Panama Canal expansion, in 2015 should be finished and the American country would amortize the cost in some years. This shortcut created by the human generates 6 millions of dollars per day and with the expansion will generate 12 millions per day. The government are really interested in this project but the Spanish company swindled the cost prices and Panama should pay more of they expected.

Around a hundred of Panamanians after know this new, they made a strike around the city, ending in the Spanish embassy, grabbing mirrors in their hands as symbol of protest against Spain and his company. But...why mirrors?

The little mirrors were a symbol of the time when Spanish were colonizing Central America and we took natives gold, changing it by mirrors, sold as "magic items". This is a metaphor of what happened there; Sacyr took the "gold" with a cheat in their accounts.

I have to say that the whole population is not angry with Spain, they are specially with this company but this issue broke the confidence between both countries and other spanish companies are having troubles to trade there and have benefits.

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