On 21 November 2023, 21 people demonstrating against the approval of a mining contract between the Panamanian State and a mining company were criminally denounced by the Cámara de Turismo, Comercio e Industrias de Tierras Altas de Panamá. They were accused of criminal association, damages and terrorism. Among them, Damaris Sánchez Samudio, Coordinator of the Fundación para el Desarrollo Integral Comunitario y Conservación de los Ecosistemas en Panamá (FUNDICCEP). The complaint occurred in the context of massive demonstrations against the approval of a contract that allowed the copper exploration concession at the largest open-pit copper mine in Central America operated by the company Sociedad Minera Panamá, S.A, a subsidiary of the Canadian First Quantum Minerals. A first contract between Sociedad Minera Panamá, S.A. and the Panamanian State was declared unconstitutional in 2017. We invited the Cámara de Turismo, Comercio e Industrias de Tierras Altas to respond; it did not.