Panama President José Raul Mulino said on Thursday that the United States is spreading “lies and falsehoods.” Previously, the US State Department claimed that US government vessels could pass the Panama channel without paying fee.
Speaking to journalists, Mulino expressed his “absolute rejection” of managing ties between the two countries “based on lies and falsehoods.”
The authority of the Panama Channel denying that the government had agreed not to charge crossing fees for US government vessels.
Trump accused the Central American country of charging excessive fees for the use of commercial passage, one of the busiest in the world.
“Why are they making an important institutional statement from the United States foreign policy under the US President, based on a falsehood?” Mulino asked.
The president called the US State Department’s allegation of “simple and clearly intolerable.”
In addition, he asked Ambassador Panamenho in Washington to take “firm measures” to deny the Trump government’s statement.
The Republican had previously said that the waterway had been taken by China and
