Panama Leader Denies Trump Claim of Free Canal Passage
Two Presidents Set to Speak by Phone Feb. 7
A containership passes through the Miraflores Locks as it transits the Panama Canal. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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President Jose Raul Mulino denied that his government had granted free passage for American government ships through the Panama Canal in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to reclaim the waterway, accusing the U.S. of “lies and falsehoods.”
Mulino, who has vowed to keep the canal in Panamanian hands, said Feb. 6 that he was “surprised” by a State Department statement saying that U.S…
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