Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino refuted the U.S. State Department's assertion that Panama had agreed to permit U.S. warships to pass through the Panama Canal for free.
Panama’s President Raúl Mulino criticized as an “intolerable” falsehood the US State Department’s claim that the Central American nation had agreed to no longer charge fees for US government ships passing through the Panama Canal. “[The State Department] are making an important and institutional statement from the entity that governs the foreign policy of the United States under the President of the United States based on a falsehood, and that is intolerable. Simply and plainly intolerable,” Mulino said at a news conference on Thursday.
The president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, on Thursday morning refuted the “false” and “intolerable” claims made by the U.S. Department of State indicating that U.S. government vessels would be allowed to travel through the Panama Canal without paying fees.
