By ALMA SOLÍS

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama President José Raúl Mulino said Thursday that someone at the U.S. Embassy has been threatening to cancel the visas of Panamanian officials as the Trump administration pressures Panama to limit its ties to China.

Responding to a question at his weekly news conference, Mulino said without offering evidence that an official at the U.S. Embassy is “threatening to take visas,” adding that such actions are ”not coherent with the good relationship I aspire to maintain with the United States.” He did not name the official.

U.S. Ambassador to Panama Kevin Marino Cabrera said in a statement Thursday that “a visa is a privilege, not a right.”

He cited a U.S. policy announced in September by the State Department to restrict visas to Central American citize

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