The National Workers Central of Panama (CNTP) declared the US ambassador to Panama, Mari Carmen Aponte, persona non grata, accusing her of interfering actions.
In a statement, the trade union organization pointed out that the conduct of the diplomat responds to a policy of more than three decades of considering Panama as a colony and backyard, with the support of successive governments allowing it and throwing away the sacrifice of generations to conquer sovereignty and national independence.
In its message, the CNTP recalled that one of the objectives of the U.S. military invasion on December 20, 1989 was precisely to install a puppet government, compliant and obedient to the security interests of a foreign power.
In this regard, it pointed out that in all these years high-level civilian and military people have visited the country under the excuse of helping to face migratory crisis or drug trafficking, but whose presence insults the historical memory of martyrs and heroes of the independence.
The CNTP demanded that Aponte stop meddling in the internal affairs of the Central American country and rejected that she walks freely through the territory and ministries as if it were an associated state or a U.S. colony.
In recent weeks the diplomat has been seen touring areas and reception points of irregular migrants in the Darien jungle, where there are military bases, according to the popular collectives. (PL)
