Panama: Government denies U.S. involvement in four new bases

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Xinhua

Friday, November 13, 2009
Panama: Government denies U.S. involvement in four new bases

Xinhua - The four aerial-maritime anti-drug bases to be established on the Pacific coast would be under full Panamanian sovereignty and have no U.S. involvement, a senior Panamanian official said Thursday.

The bases "will be purely Panamanian," Panama's Interior and Justice Minister Jose Raul Mulino announced.

The Panamanian opposition has claimed that these bases would be controlled by the United States.

Mulino said that affirmation was baseless because there would be neither U.S. troops nor U.S. aid on those bases.

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[Enrique]

1. four new bases for a small country with no standing military

hmmm...

[EFerrari]

2. Why is the United States mounting a military build up in Latin America?

[Judi Lynn]

3. Looks like the shadow government is steering the ship.

Same guys who assisted the military coups, juntas, bloody puppet dictators in South America, tore Central America apart during the Reagan years, and long before that, during Eisenhower, want all the control they have lost over those countries back.

[Submariner]

4. One reason is that the Canal Expansion Project is underway

with the Super Locks that can pass the largest ships on the planet. Our Navy would like a presence on each end of the canal for security purposes.

The new locks open in august 2014.

http://www.pancanal.com/eng/index.html

[EFerrari]

5. Thank you. I didn't realize they were that far along in the process. n/t