Panama City:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on Sunday, consulted with Panama leaders to reporter President Donald Trump, who would regain the control of the Panama Canal.
Trump has refused to return to a threat to seize important waterways, and what can Panama refuse to claim sovereignty and what can Rubio delighted diplomatically? It is unknown.
Rubio was the first conference overseas as a US diplomat, and passed the honorary guard of the white -painted wall of President Jose Raul Mulino in the old district of the tropical capital.
Rubio shakes hands with Foreign Minister Javier Martinezka and flashes a sign with his thumb before the talk with Mulino. They did not comment immediately to the press.
In the latter half of the day, Rubio tours the Panama Canal, an important link between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, which passes about 40 % of US containers traffic.
Trump and Rubio say that US competitors, China, gain too much power around the canal, have a catastrophic consequences for the United States, and close it in a potential conflict.
Murino has ordered a company -based company auditing a company based in Hong Kong, which manages the ports on both sides of the canal.
Trump, who talked to the reporters on Friday, said that it was not enough, and Panama had “completely violated” the understanding of the United States giving the Canal in late 1999.
“They have already offered to do a lot,” Trump said on Friday in Panama on Friday.
Protest of sovereignty
Before Rubio’s visit to Rubio, the protest scattered in Panama broke out, and his statue burned red, white and blue suits.
Diogenes Sanchez, a professor who participated in the protest, pledged to protect Panama’s sovereignty.
“We have firmly refused US claims to turn Panama into a colony,” he said.
The Panama Canal, whose Trump is called the world’s “wonder of the world”, was built by the United States at the expense of thousands of workers’ lives. Most are Barbados, Jamaica, and other African people in the Caribbean Sea. 。
The United States maintained the control of the canal when opened in 1914, but began negotiating in 1964 following the fatal riot that offended foreign rule.
At the end of 1999, Jimmy Carter sealed the agreement of Panama to Panama, and the deceased was seeing a moral duty to respect the sovereign country, despite its small United States.
Trump has a very different view, returning to the “big stick” approach in the early 20th century, threatening the United States, especially in Latin America.
In the first week of his appointment, Trump prepared a large -scale tariff in Colombia to forced US allies to regain citizens expelled abroad by military airplanes.
When Rubio started traveling, Trump signed a sanctions of Canada, Mexico and China’s top three US trading partners on Saturday.
Rubio, the first Secretary of State of Hispanic and a respectable DEV Catholic, started Sunday at Panam City, who attended a mass in a church built in the old town 4 century ago.
He travels to the four Latin American countries of El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Dominica Republic. It is expected to cooperate with the important priority of Trump, which forced immigration from the United States.
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