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Panama Canal at top capacity as Iran war triggers more LNG vessel traffic, chief says

March 20, 2026 admin

A cargo ship transits the Panama Canal in Panama City, on March 12, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP The Panama Canal is operating at top capacity, with a daily passage of between 36 and 38 vessels, the waterway’s ‌chief Ricaurte Vasquez told reporters on Friday (March 20, 2026), adding that the war on Iran was…

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Panama Says There Will Be No Negotiations With US Over Canal

January 30, 2025 admin

Panama City: Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino on Thursday ruled out negotiations with the United States over ownership of the Panama Canal as he prepares to host Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Trump, in his inaugural address on January 20, alleged that China was effectively “operating” the waterway which the United States handed…

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US Secretary Of State Marco Rubio To Visit Panama Next Week Amid Row

January 23, 2025 admin

Washington: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio would travel to Panama and several other countries in the region later next week, his spokesperson said on Thursday. “Secretary Rubio will travel to Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic starting late next week,” State Department Spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said. Rubio, 53, was sworn…

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Panama complains to U.N. over Trump canal threat, starts audit

January 22, 2025 admin

A cargo ship sails towards the Bridge of the Americas, which spans the entrance to the Panama Canal, after newly sworn-in U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks during his inauguration speech, when he vowed that the United States would take back the canal, in Panama City, Panama January 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Panama has…

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Panama Canal Was “Not Gift From US”: Panama President At Davos

January 22, 2025 admin

Davos: The Panama Canal was not a gift from the United States, President Jose Raul Mulino said Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump threatened to take it back. “We reject in its entirety everything that Mr Trump has said. First because it is false and second because the Panama Canal belongs to Panama and will…

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Trump Says US “Taking Back” Panama Canal In Inauguration Address

January 20, 2025 admin

President Donald Trump on Monday cast himself as a peacemaker in his second inaugural address, but immediately vowed that the United States would be “taking back” the Panama Canal. Trump issued the threat, without explaining details, after weeks of refusing to rule out military action against Panama over the waterway, which the United States handed…

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Blinken Brushes Off Trump Threats On Panama Canal

January 16, 2025 admin

Washington: Outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday dismissed as bluster President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to seize the Panama Canal, instead anticipating a more traditional strategy of diversifying supply chains. “On the Panama Canal, we have a treaty, we have a settled policy of many years, and that’s not going to change,” Blinken…

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Hundreds Of Panamanians March Amid Trump’s Threats

January 9, 2025 admin

Panama City: Hundreds of Panamanians marched on Thursday to mark the anniversary of a deadly uprising against U.S. control of the Panama Canal in 1964, with some protesters burning an effigy of President-elect Donald Trump who has threatened to retake the vital global waterway. More than 20 Panamanians, many of them students, died during violent…

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Panama Canal CEO Says Trump’s Plans Would “Lead To Chaos”

January 8, 2025 admin

Washington: Granting Donald Trump’s demand for US ships passing through the Panama Canal to get preferential treatment would “lead to chaos,” the head of the authority running the waterway said Wednesday. “Rules are rules and there are no exceptions,” Panama Canal Authority leader Ricuarte Vasquez Morales told the Wall Street Journal. “We cannot discriminate for…

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Panama Canal: Troubled waters – The Hindu

December 28, 2024 admin

Emboldened by his victory in the U.S. presidential polls, Donald Trump has drummed up his rhetoric of belligerence by announcing plans to annex Canada and Greenland and retake control of the Panama Canal. While the U.S. has not historically shied away from coveting the two northern territories, threatening to renege on a deal that ceded…

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