{"id":501707,"date":"2026-03-07T17:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/president-of-panama-promotes-energy-and-logistics-projects-at-the-miami-summit\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:06:25","slug":"president-of-panama-promotes-energy-and-logistics-projects-at-the-miami-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/president-of-panama-promotes-energy-and-logistics-projects-at-the-miami-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"President of Panama promotes energy and logistics projects at the Miami summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Miami.- <\/strong>Panamanian President Jos\u00e9 Ra\u00fal Mulino met this Saturday in Miami with senior officials from the U.S. Government’s Commerce and Energy departments, with whom he discussed the projects Panama is promoting to consolidate itself as an energy hub in Latin America and strengthen its leadership as a global trade logistics hub.<\/p>\n\n\nMulino addressed these issues in two bilateral meetings held with the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, within the framework of the Latin American leaders’ summit convened by US President Donald Trump, in a hotel south of Miami.\n\nThe Panamanian leader presented to US officials the progress of the electrical interconnection project with Colombia, as well as the gas pipeline project through the Panama Canal, two mega-projects that “will put the (Central American) country on the energy map,” noted a statement from the Panamanian Executive.\n\nPanama and Colombia are promoting an $800 million electrical interconnection project, proposed in 2009 as a line of about 500 kilometers and 400 megawatts of power, but which has not been realized, which they consider key to the decarbonization and energy transition of both countries and which they hope will be an example of the highest standards in environmental matters and citizen participation.\n\n\n

We recommend reading:Trump tells some Latin American leaders: “I’m not going to learn your damn language”<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Maritime Strategy and Planned Megaports<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nMulino also stated that Panama has “redefined its maritime strategy to maintain its leadership as a logistics and merchant marine center at the service of world trade.”\n\nThis includes, he highlighted, plans for two future megaport projects at both entrances to the interoceanic canal, and the multimodal center of Puerto Armuelles on the Pacific coast near the border with Costa Rica.\n\nThe official information highlights that “both Wright and Lutnick expressed their willingness to collaborate with Panama within their areas of competence.”\n\nMulino participates in the so-called Americas Shield summit with more than a dozen leaders, most of them ideological allies of Trump: the Argentinian Javier Milei, the Chilean Jos\u00e9 Antonio Kast, the Bolivian Rodrigo Paz, the Costa Rican Rodrigo Chaves, the Dominican Luis Abinader, the Ecuadorian Daniel Noboa, the Salvadoran Nayib Bukele, the Honduran Nasry Asfura, the Paraguayan Santiago Pe\u00f1a or the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar.\n\nHowever, the relationship with Mulino has been marked by tension following Trump’s election as president and the first months of his term in 2025, when he threatened to regain the Panama Canal given the alleged influence of China on the route, a claim always rejected by Panama, which demanded that Washington not involve its country in its geopolitical struggle with Beijing.\n\nThe U.S. built the Canal in the early 20th century and operated it for more than eight decades, until its transfer to Panama on December 31, 1999. Trump warns that “he will not allow foreign influence” in the Panama Canal<\/strong>\n\nThe American President, Donald Trump, warned this Saturday that “he will not allow foreign influence” in America as part of his new doctrine, “which includes the Panama Canal”, which he declared his “favorite canal” in the presence of the Panamanian president, Jos\u00e9 Ra\u00fal Mulino.\n\n\n

“We are not going to allow hostile foreign influence to establish itself in this hemisphere, that includes the Panama Canal, which we have discussed. We are not going to allow it,” Trump stated in his inaugural speech for his ‘Shield of the Americas’ initiative before more than a dozen Latin American leaders, such as Mulino.<\/p>\n\n\nYou can also read:\n\nTrump framed the importance of the maritime route in his “new” version of the Monroe Doctrine, which he has christened as ‘Donroe Doctrine’, to justify the intervention of the United States in America to protect the continent from the influence of powers from other regions.\n\nAlthough he did not speak of specific actions, Trump reiterated his interest in the canal directly to the Panamanian president.\n“President of Panama, I love that canal, Jos\u00e9. I think (Panama) made the biggest deal in history. They bought it for 1 dollar from one of our brilliant presidents (Jimmy Carter in 1977). I can’t sleep because of that deal. They gave it to them for 1 dollar,” said the president.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miami.- Panamanian President Jos\u00e9 Ra\u00fal Mulino met this Saturday in Miami with senior officials from the U.S. Government’s Commerce and Energy departments, with whom he discussed the projects Panama is promoting to consolidate itself as an energy hub in Latin America and strengthen its leadership as a global trade logistics hub. Mulino addressed these issues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26w3","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}