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Home     Economy     GUPC: both sets of locks poorly designed, pins and glue fix suggested Economy News GUPC: both sets of locks poorly designed, pins and glue fix suggested September 30, 2015 0 Share on Facebook   Tweet on Twitter     What neither the ACP nor Panama’s rabiblanco media want to mention is that Alberto Alemán Zubieta’s family owns one of the companies in the GUPC consortium that was awarded the locks design and construction contract by way of a lowball bid. Alemán Zubieta was CEO of that company, Constructora Urbana SA (CUSA) just before he became canal administator. Graphic by the ACP. La Prensa reports that the GUPC consortium submitted an interim report on the leaking locks on September 25 GUPC says both sets of locks are badly designed, suggests cement and more rebar by Eric Jackson Bechtel reps state a consortium cannot even “pour the concrete” for $3.1 billion and hinted even their $...