It is the first container of fireworks that leaves Panama for international markets from the province of Chiriquí to Caracas, Venezuela..

Universal Lights and Effects is the company that has ventured into the export of this first container that carries 1,536 boxes of these products, made with purely Chiricana labor, mostly female.

Hernán Saldaña, administrator of the company, pointed out that the drop in sales during the years of the pandemic led him to venture into creating his own products, since acquiring them was very expensive and he had to travel to China to obtain them.

“They were very difficult months, the economic situation hit the companies, mine was no exception, the celebrations had been suspended so our products were stopped,” Saldaña said.

He added that “it is there when I think about venturing into the manufacture of pyrotechnics, with safety and quality standards, even with experts from China, where this type of artifact is created and that is when this path begins, which today not only puts this company at the forefront, but Panama as an exporter of this type of pyrotechnics.”

For her part, Meybis Vergara, a collaborator in the manufacture of these products, said she was happy to know that the work she will do will go to other countries, mainly when 90% of the workers are women, to whom a field has been opened to work on this project.

It was known that in the coming days it is planned to reach markets in Costa Rica with the shipment of one and a half containers of these devices, later to Guatemala, Aruba and other countries in the world.

Panama is approaching the high season for the sale of these products, due to the end of the year holidays.