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Tension and defiance in Panama after Trump threatens to ‘take back’ canal

Tension and defiance in Panama after Trump threatens to ‘take back’ canal

Diplomatic frenzy and rattled nerves in republic as officials and former president reject US president’s comments

From a modern control room high above the canal expansion – overlooking the Cocolí locks, then lakes, rainforest canopy and, eventually, the Atlantic ocean – it barely registers that the era of gunboat diplomacy is returning to the Panama canal.

But four days into Donald Trump’s second administration, here we are. Trump has declared that he is “taking back” the Panama canal, sending TV crews from Washington to Beijing scrambling here to cover a crisis that has led to frenzied diplomatic efforts and elicited fears of a repeat of the 1989 US military invasion.

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