The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has proclaimed that Think “to recover the Panama Canal, or something very fat is going to happen”according to the statements made just when its Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is this official visit in Panama.
Trump 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).
The President He accused Panama again of “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, who established the progressive transfer of the Panama Canal and his 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 channel, which It was never given to the Chinesebut 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 the head of US diplomacy, Marco Rubio.
For now It is unknown if Trump is unhappy with the result of Rubio’s trip -And from there the threat of resuming the canal-, although the US secretary of state started this Sunday from the authority of the channel the promise that they will work with the US Navy to “optimize the priority in the transit of their ships (American) “Through the interoceanic path.
This seems to be The first fruit of Rubio’s visitafter today, his discontent was transferred to President Mulino 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,” he said The State Department in a statement released in Washington.
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