The 8th Central American Security Conference (CENTSEC) was held in April in Panama, a nation that could be seriously affected by budgetary cuts in the United States if Panamax, an annual exercise aimed at training Western Hemisphere militaries to protect the Panama Canal, is cancelled. Diálogo interviewed Manuel Salvador Moreno, Panamanian Vice Minister of Public Security, during CENTSEC 2013 and talked about this and other issues.
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