Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino rejected claims on Thursday that U.S. military training taking place in Panama is connected to any operation against Venezuela, insisting that ongoing jungle exercises with American forces fall strictly within existing bilateral cooperation agreements.
"With regard to Venezuela, we have nothing to do with that," Mulino said in his weekly press conference. "Panama is not lending its territory for any type of hostile act against Venezuela, nor against any other country in the world."
