Panama Canal Apologizes for Displaying Porn Video in its Museum

[Keith Woolford]

Only in Panama, where the truth is often stranger than fiction.

Panama Canal Apologizes for Displaying Porn Video in its Museum

• Tue, 06/26/2018 - 16:28

The Panama Canal apologized today for having mistakenly released a porn video in one of its museums and claimed to have taken the necessary precautions to avoid that this type of incident does not happen again.

The administration of the interoceanic route said in a statement released Tuesday on its social networks that a person outside the canal placed "inappropriate external content" on one of the screens known as Centro de Miraflores (Miraflores Center), located on the Pacific side and from where it is possible to see how the ships cross the locks of the same name.

"We apologize to our visitors to the Miraflores Center for a technical condition that allowed an intruder into one of our screens and the unauthorized placement of inappropriate external content from outside the canal," it said.

The incident took place on Monday and went viral on social networks, which were filled with videos in which you can see how a porn scene is projected on one of the explanatory screens of the museum.

"We have taken the necessary technical precautions to prevent this situation from happening again," the canal added in the same statement.

For the canal, built by the US At the beginning of the last century and transferred to Panama on December 31, 1999, it passes close to 6 percent of world trade and connects more than 140 maritime routes and 1,700 ports in 160 different countries.

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This June 26 marks the second anniversary since the inauguration of the canal expansion, which was built to allow the crossing of the so-called neopanamax, with capacity to carry up to 14,000 containers.

Container transport remains the main business of the canal, but the new locks have allowed the it to open to other products, such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) or large cruise ships.