Panama president says ‘Trump is lying’ about reclaiming canal

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Panama’s president José Raúl Mulino has accused his US counterpart Donald Trump of “lying” about Washington taking back the Panama canal. “Once again, President Trump is lying. The Panama Canal is not in the process of recovery,” Mulino wrote on X. “I reject, on behalf of Panama and all Panamanians, this new affront to the truth and to our dignity as a nation,” Mulino wrote on Wednesday, after Trump said that his administration had started to take back the vital waterway. “To further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal, and we’ve already started doing...