First Vice President Samuel Lewis navarro of Panama

Nelson Urrego in all my 50-year life, Lewis Navarro said in a statement.

Panama Refuses to Shelter TerroristPrensa LatinaPanamanian Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro denied Wednesday that his government plans to receive international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

Panama - Panamanian Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro denied Wednesday that his government plans to receive international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, detained in the US since May 2005.

From September 2004, Minister Lewis Navarro has conducted the foreign policy of the Government of Panama with balance and wisdom, projecting the country vigorously in the international sphere.

While cultivating cordial and mutually beneficial State relations, ensuring the representation of the interests of the nation at regional and world organizations, endeavoring to contribute to the solution of the serious problems that afflict Latin America and the rest of the world, Foreign Minister Lewis Navarro has promoted an enduring foreign policy serving national development.

for the purpose of “strengthening the presence and the image of Panama in the United States, always for the benefit of national interests, bearing in mind that the United States is the main trade partner of Panama and its businessmen have strong economic ties with our country”, as Lewis Navarro has pointed out.

Minister Lewis Navarro has promoted the modernization of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where, with the support of both the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Central American Secretariat for Economic Integration (SIECA), an Integrated Information System has been established, making all communications processes more efficient, minimizing the time involved and reducing costs and resources needed to provide services locally and on the international level.

Lewis Navarro has participated outstandingly in business organizations such as the Industrial Guild of Panama; the Panamanian Association of Business Executives (APEDE in Spanish); the Panamanian Association of Exporters (APEX); the Panamanian Chamber of Commerce; the American Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Panama (AMCHAM); the Young Presidents' Organization, and the Gabriel Lewis Galindo Foundation, dedicated to promoting education in Panama.

Samuel Lewis Navarro was born into a family with a tradition for public service, particularly in the international field.

Samuel Lewis Navarro was elected by direct popular vote on May 2, 2004 as First Vice President of the Republic of Panama for the period 2004-2009 in the government headed by President Martn Torrijos Espino.

The Foreign Ministers of the Latin American countries unanimously chose Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro as President of the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) that elected Secretary General Jos Miguel Insulza in 2005.

Samuel Lewis Navarro was born on July 15, 1957 in Panama City.

for La Estrella de Panama - In an attempt to help the private sector regain confidence in the future of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement with the United States, Panama's First Vice President Samuel Lewis Navarro said that the commercial agreement is following its course and that the Panamanian government is staying in contact with American senators.

By Eliana Morales Gil for La Prensa - Panama's First Vice President and Chancellor Samuel Lewis Navarro has still not clearly indicated his political future.

Editor's Comment: An excellent source indicated to me about a month ago that Samuel Lewis Navarro has examined his possibilities of winning in a PRD primary election and has decided not to run for the presidency.

Panama, Aug 16 (Prensa Latina) Panamanian Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro denied Wednesday that his government plans to receive international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, detained in the US since May 2005.

Lewis Navarro described as absolutely false allegations that he had dealings with Jose Nelson Urrego, a former communications head for Colombia's powerful Norte del Valle cocaine cartel who was captured in Sept.

Nelson Urrego in my 50 years of life, Lewis Navarro said a statement.

Lewis Navarro has indicated in the past that he would be interested in running in the 2009 presidential election.

At the time Torrijos won the PRD presidential primary, Lewis Navarro was a member of the Solidaridad party, which is headed by his uncle Samuel Lewis Galindo and backed Guillermo Endara in the 2004 presidential contest.

Vice-President Lewis Navarro is one of Panama's richest men.

Lewis Navarro has made a name for himself in a number of business enterprises, both national and international.

Although the G-4 membership does not show it as clearly as the intention to join MERCOSUR, the foreign policy that Lewis Navarro is beginning to enunciate on behalf of the Torrijos administration represents the return to an orientation that has been the norm throughout Panamanian history, from even before we became an independent republic and indeed from before the Spanish Conquest: Panama as much more of a South American than a Central American country.

However, in an interview with the Spanish EFE news agency given while he was in Brazil, Lewis Navarro said that the Torrijos administration had inherited a clumsy and conflicting foreign policy from its predecessor.

Somebodys not telling the truth, said political Edwin Cabrera after Panamas First Vice President Samuel Lewis Navarro denied information provided by Panamanian governmental intelligence sources on the connection of SUNTRACS with Fernando Bossi, Secretary of the Bolivariano Congress of the People.

Samuel Lewis Navarro denied the information provided by Arosemena six days later, just when Arosemena is attending a Summit on the Central American Integration System (SICA) in representation of President Martin Torrijos.