Panamanian President, José Raúl Mulinosaid Wednesday that the US president, Donald Trump“Again lies“On the Panama Canal, because the road is not”In recovery process”On the part of Washington.
“Again President Trump lies. He Panama Canal is not in the process of recovery”And this issue has not been addressed in bilateral conversations, he said Mulino on Network X.
The Panamanian president made these statements the next day that, in a message to Congress in Washington, the chief of the White House reiterated that “You will recover”This sea road inaugurated in 1914 by United States and delivered to Panama on the last day of 1999.
“To further improve our national security, my administration will recover the Panama Canal, and we have already started doing it”, Said Trump.
Trump has previously declared that he does not rule out the use of force to take control of the 80 -kilometer channel, which unites the Pacific with the Atlantic.
“Rejection in the name of Panama And of all Panamanians this new affront to the truth and our dignity as a nation”Mulino wrote.
“Cooperation between our governments goes through clear understandings around issues of mutual interest, as it has been doing. Nothing has to do with the ‘recovery of the channel’ neither with cumbersome our national sovereignty”He added.
Trump has affirmed that there is Chinese interference on the channel, because two ports in road accesses are operated by the Hutchison company of Hong Kong.
Under Trump’s pressure, Hutchison He announced on Tuesday that he agreed to yield his participation in the operation in the ports of the Panama Canal and other facilities to a group led by the giant American asset manager Blackrock for US $ 19,000 million.
The Panamanian government indicated in a statement on Tuesday that this operation “It is a global transaction, among private companies, motivated by mutual interests”, But an audit of the Comptroller will continue to the subsidiary of Hutchison that operates the ports of Balboa and San Cristóbal.
Some analysts said that Hutchison’s decision could be a “exit”To the controversy between the United States and Panama, but Trump insisted on his desire to recover the channel in his message to Congress.
At the same time, the Panamanian Supreme Court analyzes two demands for nullity against the concession contract to the Hongkonese company, signed in 1997 and extended for 25 years in 2021.