Secretary of State Marco Rubio departs on his first overseas travel as a top domestic diplomat on Saturday. Rubio's first stop on a six -day visit is Panama, who has begun pursuing President Donald Trump's geopolitical agenda.
Trump uses his inauguration speech to declare his intention to “regain” the Panama Canal, and on the phone with a reporter on Friday, the special envoy of Latin America's Mauricio Clubber Caron is the main envoy of Rubio. He said that the purpose was to re -establish. The “Golden Age” in the United States.
“This trip means the greatness of the United States and the era of the golden age,” he said, saying, “The 21st century will be the American century.”
Former President Donald Trump is R-FLA. Senator Marco Rubio will give a lecture on November 6, 2022 at a meeting at Miami -gun Fair and Miami Expo. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Marco Rubio says that he is laying out the first agenda in the United States with new operations, and says he is ignoring us “the end”.
Claver-Carone pointed out that Rubio's travel to Latin America has been the first time by Secretary of State to travel to the area for more than 100 years.
“The last thing that happened was to supervise the construction and management of the Panama Canal when Filander Chase Knox went to Panama in 1912,” he told reporters. “As President Trump himself mentioned, it would be a wonderful message to return to the golden age of the US continent and return.”
Rubio will meet Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino.
This pair is expected to discuss Rubio and Trump's important waterways at both ends of the waterway and to fight the drug trafficking on the Panama Canal and the relocation of China's existence.
The Trump administration has a strict grip for all Chinese companies (CCP), which is operated by the canal in the expansion, and in theory, when it is selected, it closes US transactions. I claim that it can be done. Severe security threat.
Before giving a speech at the Panama City Atrapacon Vention Center on July 1, 2024, a new Panama, Josella Lunlino, looked back. (AP Photo/Matthia Delac Lore)
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Mulino repeatedly denied that Chinese companies would affect the operation of the Panama Canal and would not negotiate the ownership of Rubio and the Canal on Thursday.
“It's impossible, I can't negotiate,” said Mulino, at a press conference on Thursday, when asked about negotiating the control of the canal. “It's done. The canal belongs to Panama.”
Mulino has cut off his relationship with Taiwan in 2017, established diplomatic relations with China in 2017, and eventually the Hong Kong Consortium could operate a port at both ends of the canal. It seems that he claimed that it was caused by the person.
Panama claims to control the canal.
On December 28, 2024, on Lake Gatun, a Gatuna Lock in Panama Canal in Colon, Panama, the cargo ship Cape Heras and the Portugal cargo ship ELMA will sail on Lake Gatun. (Arnulfo Franco/AFP via Getty Images)
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Claver-Carone has argued that Chinese companies control everything, from power and logistics to telecommunications, infrastructure, etc. 。
Rubio will also visit El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Dominica, and will meet the president of each country before returning to the United States on Thursday.
Along with China's influence in these countries, gang violence, migration, and drug trafficking, it is also the top of Rubio's agenda.
