The president of the USA, Donald Trumphe proclaimed today “Recover the Panama Canal or something very fat will happen”as warned in statements made just when his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, this Sunday visiting in Panama.
Trump made this brief statement to journalists on the ladder of the plane that takes him back to Washingtonafter spending the weekend in his private mansion of Mar-a-Lago (Florida).
The president accused Panama again 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, who established the progressive transfer of the Panama Canal and his adjacent areas From American hands to Panamanian control, ending almost a century of presence and administration of the USA on the interoceanic path.
Trump reiterated that “China is managing the channel, which 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 the head of US diplomacy, Marco Rubio.
At the moment it is unknown if Trump 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 authority of the channel the promise that They will work with the US Navy to “optimize the priority in the transit of their ships (Americans)” through the interoceanic path.
This seems to be the first fruit of Rubio’s visit, after today he moved his discontent 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 “according to the State Department in a statement released in Washington.
