According to a diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy in Panama spread by WikiLeaks, Washington proposed to the Central American nation to install a naval military base in the town of Puerto Piñas and expand the project throughout the region, said Wednesday the local press.
The cable broadcast on the web site dating from November 9, 2009, states that the intent of this proposal was supposed to weaken the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), as well as fighting drug trafficking.
According WikiLeaks, U.S. Ambassador in Panama at the time, Barbara Stephenson, said the collaboration would provide training and logistical support Panamanian government, which involved the construction of a pier, an operations center and barracks.
Stephenson said in the text that the matter should be handled with care and had to be seen as''a Panamanian initiative,''because at that time was a regional debate on the U.S. bases that wanted to install in Colombia.
In response, the Deputy Minister of Security of Panama, Alejandro Garuz, acknowledged Tuesday that the U.S. has taken part in the training of Panamanian personnel operating on the bases, however, denied they engaged in building bases, and If so, would be announced at the time.
United States had agreed to the installation of two naval bases in Panama for allegedly fighting drug trafficking in the region, through an agreement would be signed in late 2010 by the government of Ricardo Martinelli.
However, the Panamanian government minister, Jose Raul Mulino, later clarified that his country will not settle U.S. air and naval bases, which contrasted with the information he had released in October of that year.
This time, the Front Defense National Economic and Social Rights in Panama (Frenadeso), expressed his rejection of the plan that the government had to establish U.S. military bases in the territory.
The Peace and Justice Service (Serpaj) Panama had also rejected this project I wanted implemented in the Central American nation that was already established in Colombia.
In May 2010 the opposition Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) of Panama reported that showed images of U.S. military presence in the nation in work ignored by the public.
Since the early twentieth century with the construction of the Panama Canal, the country was attended by U.S. Army troops, however they left the nation on December 31, 1999 when the waterway was recovered by the Panamanian government.
The documents released by WikiLeaks are part of a collection of more than 250,000 submissions of the Department of State United States released by the website in November 2010 in which he stripped of U.S. foreign policy.
Source: TeleSur
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