No Pact of Silence over Panama Genocide
The US invasion of Panama on Dec 20, 1989, is a historic event over which there will not be any shroud of silence, Panama Ambassador to Spain Humberto Lopez Tirone said Tuesday.

In remarks to Prensa Latina from Casa de America at the screening of the documentary “The Panama Deception”, by Barbara Trent, the diplomat said this work has the value of refreshing the memory of Panamanians, of the US people, and the world.

Lopez Tirone, who is also national secretary of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), insisted that the invasion ordered by George Bush senior is a latent genocide, which the victims have not overcome.

He recalled that more than 200 highly destructive bombs were launched over Panama in the first 24 hours of the invasion, killing more than 3,000 people of a population of 2.5 million inhabitants.

Lopez Tirone was emphatic that the invasion was not to capture one man, as Bush senior proclaimed, but to strike a blow at the jugular of the country´s national independence process begun by Omar Torrijos.