Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Thursday rejected U.S. claims that American warships and boats can transit the Panama Canal without paying a standard fee. In a weekly news conference ...
Hong Kong CNN — Donald Trump has begun his second term as president by ramping up pressure on Panama – threatening to “take back” the Panama Canal and accusing the country of ceding ...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has walked back the State Department’s assertion that Panama “has agreed to no longer charge fees” to US government vessels transiting the Panama Canal ...
Mulino said he had told U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday that he could neither set the fees to transit the canal nor exempt anyone from them and that he was surprised by the U.S ...
During meetings with Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino, Rubio warned of China’s “influence and control” near the canal’s logistics chain. In response, Mulino announced that Panama ...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has since rowed back on his department's claim, external, but called the fee for American vessels "absurd" due to a treaty binding the US to protect the canal if ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said it was “absurd” to charge fees to the U.S. military ...
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