Asylum seeker rights: Migrants in limbo in Panama jungle camp after being deported from US
SARAH KINOSIAN, of Reuters, reports on concerns over the rights of migrants deported from the US to the Panamainian jungle…
Trump deporting people at a slower rate than Biden’s last year in office
Washington DC, US Reuters US President Donald Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office, previously unpublished US Department of Homeland Security data show, far less than the monthly average of 57,000 removals and returns in the last full year of Joe Biden’s administration. A senior Trump administration official and experts said deportations […]
Migrants in Panama deported from US moved to Darien jungle region
Panama City, Panama Reuters A group of nearly 100 migrants deported from the US to Panama last week has been moved from a hotel in the capital to the Darien jungle region in the south of the country, Panama’s government said on Wednesday. In a statement, Panama’s security ministry said of the 299 migrants deported […]
US deports to Panama nearly 120 migrants of different nationalities
Panama City, Panama Reuters The United States deported 119 people of different nationalities to Panama as part of an agreement between the administration of US President Donald Trump and the Central American nation, Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino said on Thursday. The first flight from the US, carrying people from Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Nepal, […]
Rubio tells Panama to end China’s influence of canal or face US action
Panama City, Panama Reuters US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday warned Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino that Washington will “take measures necessary” if Panama does not immediately take steps to end what President Donald Trump sees as China’s influence and control over the Panama Canal. Mulino, after the talks with the top US […]
Trump vows again to take back Panama Canal, talks of “Manifest Destiny” in space
Washington DC, US Reuters Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that the United States would take back the Panama Canal as he delivered an inauguration speech in which he invoked the 19th century expansionist doctrine of “Manifest Destiny.” Doubling down on his pre-inauguration threat to reimpose US control over the canal, Trump again […]
As Panama remembers bloody past, a message for Trump: the canal is ours
Panama City, Panama Reuters Hundreds of Panamanians marched on Thursday to mark the anniversary of a deadly uprising against US 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 […]
Trump previews combative foreign policy with threats to Panama, Greenland
West Palm Beach, Florida, US Reuters Donald Trump’s surprise threat to retake control of the Panama Canal and his expansionist declaration that the United States should own Greenland signals that the incoming US President will pursue a foreign policy unbound by diplomatic niceties. As Trump prepares to take office on 20th January, his aides have […]
Trump threatens to retake control of Panama Canal
West Palm Beach, Florida, US Reuters President-elect Donald Trump threatened to reassert US control over the Panama Canal on Sunday, accusing Panama of charging excessive rates to use the Central American passage and drawing a sharp rebuke from Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino. Speaking to a crowd of supporters in Arizona, Trump also said he […]
Balancing act: Threatened by climate change, Panama Canal has big plans to deal with drought
MARIANNA PARRAGA and ELIDA MORENO, of Reuters, report on the Rio Indio dam project amid concerns for a population that faces displacement…