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6 years ago

US Vice President Mike Pence is in Panama

6 years ago

At approximately 12:45 pm, US Vice President Mike Pence arrived on Panamanian soil to meet a tight schedule that includes a meeting with the President of the Republic of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, and Foreign Minister Isabel Saint Malo.

Pence, who was accompanied by his wife, Karen Sue Pence, was received by the deputy foreign minister, Luis Miguel Hincapié; The United States ambassador to Panama, John Feeley; And the ambassador of Panama in the United States, Emanuel González Revilla.

The US vice president was transferred to the locks of Cocolí, on the Pacific slope, where he will give a speech.

At the end of his visit to the enlarged Canal, he will move to the Palace of Las Garzas to meet with President Varela.

The Pence delegation is composed of the United States Ambassador to Panama, John Feeley; The Chief of Staff, Nicolas Ayers, and National Security Adviser Andrea Thompson.

Protests about the arrival of Pence:

Minutes after the arrival of Pence to Panama, a group of students from the University of Panama, the first state university, left to close the Transístmica, one of the main access roads of the capitol in protest of the visit of an American official.

Earlier, members of the National Trade Union of Construction and Similar Workers (Suntracs) and the National Front for the Defense of Economic and Social Rights of Panama (Frenadeso) are concentrated in the monument on January 9, in The avenue of the Martyrs, where they burned a cloth doll with the face of the American vice president and another one of the president Varela.

"We are demonstrating to claim our sovereignty and against our country and our Canal being used as a platform to attack other peoples," said Jorge Guzman, a member of Frenadeso.

The doctor and provisional president of the FAD, Fernando Cebamanos, considers that the visit of Pence to the Canal is a provocation.

During the demonstration, slogans were heard as "the murderer who on December 20 to this land came", referring to the invasion of the United States in 1989, which overthrew the dictatorship of Manuel Antonio Noriega.

The visit of Pence is part of the tour of Latin America, which since August 13 has taken in Colombia, Argentina, Chile and culminates today in Panama.

Panama and the United States will use this meeting to strengthen collaboration in matters of security in the region, and trade, among other issues.

http://laestrella.com.pa/panama/nacional/mike-pence-dirige-canal-panama/24018188

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