The US president, Donald Trumphe proclaimed today that he thinks “recovering the Panama Canalor something very fat is going to happen, ”he warned in statements made just when his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is this official visit in Panama.
Trump He made this brief statement to the journalists on the ladder of the plane that takes him back to Washington, after spending the weekend in his private mansion of Mar-A-Lago (Florida).
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The president again accused Panama of being “violating the treaties”, in reference to the Torrijos-Carter agreements signed on September 7, 1977 between the then president of Panama, Omar Torrijos, and the president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, that established the progressive transfer of the Panama Canal and its adjacent areas of American hands to Panamanian control, ending almost a century of US presence and administration on the interoceanic path.
Trump reiterated that “China is managing the channelwhich was never given to the Chinese, but foolishly given the Panamanians ”, an affirmation (that of Chinese control) that has been sharply denied by Panama, the last time this Sunday by President José Raúl Mulino after interviewing with the boss of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio.
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At the moment it is unknown if Trump It is unhappy with the result of Rubio’s trip -and hence the threat of resuming the canal -although the US secretary of state started today from the channel authority the promise that they will work with the US Navy to “optimize the priority in the transit of their ships (Americans) ”through the interoceanic pathway.
This seems to be the first fruit of Rubio’s visit, after today he moved his discontent to his discontent because “the ‘status quo’ (current) is unacceptable and, in the absence of immediate changes, the United States would have to take the necessary measures to protect their rights under the treaty, ”according to the State Department in a statement released in Washington.
