Angel Valdes | January 3, 2023
The Minister of Agricultural Development, Augusto Valderrama, in an interview with Radio Panama reacted to the statements given by former President Ricardo Martinelli where he stated that “they blame everything on the pandemic when the pandemic is them” alluding to the speech to the nation of President Laurentino Cortizo in the National Assembly.
“Former President Martinelli not knowing the global effects of the pandemic is totally absurd for him to say that there was not a pandemic that caused thousands of deaths, a global crisis, unemployment, it is not living in this world, it is being on Mars, the pandemic It was a fact that brought many countries to their knees or to ignore the war in Ukraine and to say that oil did not rise and that there are no gasoline subsidies and that we have not obtained resources for that, is not living in this country, nobody is blaming it Due to the pandemic, the president wanted to acknowledge that despite the pandemic and how serious the country experienced, whether former President Martinelli likes it or not, the economic figures that the president gave are real, a growth of 9% per end of this year, the highest in the region and one of the highest in the world»
Minister Valderrama considers that whoever wins in the 2024 elections wins, they are leaving an economically stable country «We have a recovery of 220 thousand jobs, we must recover more, that is correct, but we continue advancing with great works and this benefits the whole country and we should all be interested in the country progressing and going in the right direction, in 2024 whoever has to win wins, but who receives a country that is doing well, but going out to say that it is not here trustworthy, it’s hell, it’s being selfish with Panama and its people.”
Regarding the health of President Cortizo, Minister Valderrama mentioned that he is in good condition and willing to work «There will be some who want him sick and to leave but Nito is there and I tell him not to drop the machete president, he has gone to 120 community tours and all the ministers get tired, we feel more tired than Nito and he is like the black macano post for a long time and that hurts him a lot, “he concluded.
